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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States
Dao, Mai - 2014
We examine patterns of regional adjustments to shocks in the US during the past four decades. We find that the response of interstate migration to relative labor market conditions has decreased, while the role of the unemployment rate as absorber of regional shocks has increased. However, the...
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Regional Disparities in Europe
Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2022
While the level of disparities across regions in 10 advanced European economies studied in this paper mostly reflects productivity gaps, the increase since the Great Recession has resulted from diverging unemployment rates. Following the pandemic, this could be further exacerbated given...
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A New Claims-Based Unemployment Dataset: Application to Postwar Recoveries Across U.S. States
Fieldhouse, Andrew - 2022
Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U.S. states going back to January 1947. The constructed series are highly correlated with the Bureau of Labor Statics' state-level unemployment data, which are only available from...
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The Dynamic Effects of Local Labor Market Shocks on Small Firms in The United States
Barrett, Philip - 2024
We use payroll data on over 1 million workers at 80,000 small firms to construct county-month measures of employment … this to estimate the response of small firms' employment, hours and wages following tighter local labor market conditions …. We find that employment and hours per worker fall and wages rise. This is consistent with the predictions of the response …
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Dirty Dance: Tourism and Environment
Cevik, Serhan - 2022
Tourism was one of the fastest-growing sectors before the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for about 10 percent of global GDP. But it has also created a number of challenges including environmental degradation, especially in small island countries where the carbon footprint of tourism constitute...
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International Competitiveness of the Mediterranean Quartet
Bennett, Herman Z. - 2008
current literature and apply it to the Mediterranean Quartet (MQ) of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, whose common pattern …
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Competitiveness in the Southern Euro Area : France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain
Lissovolik, Bogdan - 2008
This collection of studies analyzes developments in nonprice external competitiveness of France, Greece, Italy …, Portugal, and Spain. While France, Italy, and Portugal have experienced substantial export market share losses, Greece and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409024
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International Competitiveness of the Mediterranean Quartet : A Heterogeneous-Product Approach
Bennett, Herman - 2008
current literature and apply it to the Mediterranean Quartet (MQ) of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, whose common pattern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409044
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The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts, and the Eurozone Crisis
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2023
Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, ranging from roughly 0.5% (Ireland) to a whopping 43% (Greece) of 2010 output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059348
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Recession and Policy Transmission to Latin American tourism; Does Expanded Travel to Cuba offset Crisis Spillovers?
Wolfe, Andrew M.; Romeu, Rafael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This study measures the impact of changing economic conditions in OECD countries on tourist arrivals to countries/destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean. A model of utility maximization across labor, consumption of goods and services at home, and consumption of tourism services across...
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