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Inclusive Growth and Inequality in Senegal
Kireyev, Alexei - 2013
The paper examines Senegal's growth performance from the perspective of its povertyreducingand distributional …
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A Quantitative Analysis of Female Employment in Senegal
Malta, Vivian - 2019
Female-to-male employment in Senegal increased by 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2011. During the same period … employment in Senegal. To that end, we build an overlapping generations model that captures barriers that women face over their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858383
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Efficient Energy Investment and Fiscal Adjustment in Senegal
Issoufou, Salifou - 2014
Senegal's fiscal deficit and public debt have been on the rise in recent years owing partly to an ailing and … growth, real wages and the supply of public services. Senegal does not need, however, to undertake such difficult fiscal …
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Inclusive Growth Framework
Kireyev, Alexei - 2017
Senegal andDjibouti …
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Capital Markets, COVID-19 and Policy Measures
ElFayoumi, Khalid; Hengge, Martina - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses triggered a historically large wave of capital reallocation between markets and asset classes. Using high-frequency country-level data, this paper examines if and how the number of COVID cases, the stringency of the lockdown, and the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234704
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Dirty Money : Does the Risk of Infectious Disease Lower Demand for Cash?
Cevik, Serhan - 2021
The coronavirus pandemic is a global crisis like no other in modern times, and there is a growing apprehension about handling potentially contaminated cash. This paper is the first empirical attempt in the literature to investigate whether the risk of infectious diseases affects demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252023
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Going Viral : A Gravity Model of Infectious Diseases and Tourism Flows
Cevik, Serhan - 2020
This paper develops a gravity model framework to estimate the impact of infectious diseases on bilateral tourism flows among 38,184 pairs of countries over the period 1995-2017. The results confirm that international tourism is adversely affected by disease risk, and the magnitude of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827591
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Who Doesn't Want to Be Vaccinated? Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy During COVID-19
Dabla-Norris, Era; Khan, Hibah; Lima, Frederico; … - 2022
Quick vaccine rollouts are crucial for a strong economic recovery, but vaccine hesitancy could prolong the pandemic and the need for social distancing and lockdowns. We use individual-level data from nationally representative surveys developed by YouGov and Imperial College London to empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305609
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The Impact of Longevity Improvements on U.S. Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plans
Kisser, Michael - 2013
This paper provides the first empirical assessment of the impact of life expectancy assumptions on the liabilities of private U.S. defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using detailed actuarial and financial information provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, we construct a longevity variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089786
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Mortality and Lifetime Income : Evidence from U.S. Social Security Records
Duggan, James - 2008
Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas … between individual mortality and lifetime income with a large micro data base of current and former retired participants in … death between low and high lifetime income are on the order of two to three years. Income-related mortality differences …
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