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Countercyclical Fiscal Policy and Gender Employment : Evidence from the G-7 Countries
Akitoby, Bernardin - 2019
Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … shock would improve the female share of employment by 0.28 percentage point during recessions. Our findings are driven by …
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Exploring the Output Effect of Fiscal Policy Shocks in Low Income Countries
Honda, Jiro - 2020
statistically significant output effect under floating exchange rate regimes. For the estimation of the output effects of fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831612
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Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession : Evidence on “She-Cessions”
Bluedorn, John C.; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, Niels-Jakob - 2022
to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to …
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Commodity Price Shocks and Fiscal Outcomes
Spatafora, Nicola - 2013
The experience of developing countries over 1990-2010 indicates that commodity prices have a significant impact on fiscal outcomes. Both revenue and expenditure rise in response to commodity (import or export) price increases; the response of the fiscal deficit is ambiguous. A floating exchange...
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Macroeconomic Effects of Sovereign Restructuring in a Monetary Union : A Model-Based Approach
Forni, Lorenzo - 2014
We assess the macroeconomic effects of a sovereign restructuring in a small economy belonging to a monetary union by simulating a dynamic general equilibrium model. In line with the empirical evidence, we make the following three key assumptions. First, sovereign debt is held by domestic agents...
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Imported Food Price Shocks and Socio-Political Instability : Do Fiscal Policy and Remittances Matter?
Meyimdjui, Carine - 2021
Using a panel of 101 low- and middle-income countries with data covering the period 1980-2012, this paper applies various econometric approaches that deal with endogeneity issues to assess the impact of food price shocks on socio-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been...
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The (Subjective) Well-Being Cost of Fiscal Policy Shocks
Eklou, Kodjovi - 2020
Do discretionary spending cuts and tax increases hurt social well-being? To answer this question, we combine subjective well-being data covering over half a million of individuals across 13 European countries, with macroeconomic data on fiscal consolidations. We find that fiscal consolidations...
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International Fiscal-Financial Spillovers : The Effect of Fiscal Shocks on Cross-Border Bank Lending
Choi, Sangyup - 2019
This paper sheds new light on the degree of international fiscal-financial spillovers by investigating the effect of domestic fiscal policies on cross-border bank lending. By estimating the dynamic response of U.S. cross-border bank lending towards the 45 recipient countries to exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864117
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Fiscal Stimulus Impact on Firms' Profitability During the Global Financial Crisis
Correa-Caro, Carolina - 2019
Using financial statement data from the Thomson Reuter's Worldscope database for 22,333 non-financial firms in 52 advanced and emerging economies, this paper examines how fiscal stimulus (i.e., changes in structural deficit) interacted with sectoral business cycle sensitivity affected corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895130
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Is Technology Widening the Gender Gap? Automation and the Future of Female Employment
Brussevich, Mariya - 2019
Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...
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