Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 246
Cover Image
Exchange Rate Fluctuations and International Portfolio Rebalancing in Thailand
Gyntelberg, Jacob - 2012
We present empirical evidence that the Thai baht’s value is driven in part by investors’ cross-border equity portfolio rebalancing decisions. Our results are based on comprehensive datasets of FX and stock market transactions undertaken by nonresident investors in Thailand in 2005 and 2006....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395736
Cover Image
COVID-19 and the informality-driven recovery : the case of Colombia’s labor market
Alvarez, Jorge; Pizzinelli, Carlo - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796732
Cover Image
Supply and demand effects of unemployment insurance benefit extensions : evidence from U.S. counties
Hellwig, Klaus-Peter - 2021
I use three decades of county-level data to estimate the effects of federal unemployment benefit extensions on economic activity. To overcome the reverse causality coming from the fact that benefit extensions are a function of state unemployment rates, I only use the within-state variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518891
Cover Image
Labor market reform options to boost employment in South Africa
Duval, Romain; Ji, Yi; Shibata, Ippei - 2021
Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612327
Cover Image
Trade, jobs, and inequality
Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021
This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605685
Cover Image
Inequality in the Spanish labor market during the COVID-19 crisis
Lariau, Ana; Liu, Lucy Qian - 2022
We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170558
Cover Image
The distributional impact of recessions : the Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession
Shibata, Ippei - 2020
Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where individuals interact to consume goods), 'teleworkable'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251998
Cover Image
Cointegration of International Stock Market Indices
Chou, Ray Yeu-Tien - 1994
In this paper, we derive evidence on the integration of international stock markets from the cointegration properties … of international stock market prices. Using the multivariate cointegration test of Johansen, we find that the set of six … country stock price indices, including that of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Japan are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395829
Cover Image
Consumption Smoothing and Exchange Rate Volatility
Turtelboom, Bart - 1995
the United States, Germany and Japan is not inconsistent with exchange rate volatility implied by consumption … for the period 1970–92. Simulation results indicate that the observed volatility of multilateral real exchange rates for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397963
Cover Image
The labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436800