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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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national income is only weakly associated with increases in measured levels of well-being. It will be important for Bhutan to …-being and macroeconomic concepts such as real national income …
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This paper examines the dynamic relationship between trade and income. While most economists agree that increased trade … leads to an increase in average income, economic theory is ambiguous about the possible effects on the long-run growth rate … of the economy. Using a dynamic panel data model, the hypotheses of no long-run effects of trade on income and on income …
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While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long …
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.S. regions and across Europe using a multivariate vector autoregression technique. The paper finds inflexible real wages in all … force to employment shocks is much greater in the United States compared to Europe. The strong labor force response in the … United States prevents any persistence in relative regional unemployment rates whereas the lack of mobility in Europe results …
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Motivated by the literature on the capital asset pricing model, we decompose the uncertainty of a typical forecaster into common and idiosyncratic uncertainty. Using individual survey data from the Consensus Forecasts over the period of 1989-2014, we develop monthly measures of macroeconomic...
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We undertake an extended discussion of the latest developments about the existing and new estimation methods of the … Multiple Causes (MIMIC) in a structured hybrid-model based estimation procedure, are promising approaches from an econometric …
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Sustainable Development. The study estimates the effects of public social spending on gross national income (GNI) per capita (in …
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Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals'' choice or a tool to coordinate individuals'' preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses by studying the consequences of the workweek reduction in France from 39 to 35 hours, which was...
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