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Are low-skill women being left behind? : labor market evidence from the UK

Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2022

Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women … occupations. We find that falling returns to labor rather than job polarization has been a key driver of rising inter-age wage … inequality among low-skill females. Wage-level cohort effects underpin a nearly 10 percent fall in expected lifetime earnings for …

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Job polarization and the declining fortunes of the young : evidence from the United Kingdom

Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2019

This paper uses a life-cycle framework to document new stylized facts about the nexus between job polarization and earnings inequality. Using quarterly labor force data for the UK over the period 2000-2018, we find clear life-cycle profiles in the probability of being employed within each...

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The Housing Cycle in Emerging Middle Eastern Economies and its Macroeconomic Policy Implications

Beidas-Strom, Samya - 2009

This paper examines housing finance and housing price dynamics in selected emerging Middle Eastern economies over the past two decades. It finds that (i) mortgage markets have experienced rapid development, which has led to lower private per capita consumer spending volatility this decade; (ii) a...

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A closer look at sectoral financial linkages in Brazil I : corporations’ financial statements

Karpowicz, Izabela; Lipinsky, Fabian; Park, Jongho - 2016

Understanding the interplay between firms' balance sheets and the macro-economic environment is important for understanding of the Brazilian economy. A close examination of developments in the nonfinancial corporate sector up to the early 2015 reveals weak equity growth, declining profitability,...

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Corporate sector vulnerabilities in Ireland

Klein, Nir - 2016

The paper uses both macro- and micro-level data to assess how has the financial health of the Irish non-financial corporate (NFC) sector changed in the post financial crisis period. The analysis suggests that vulnerabilities have generally declined in recent years, but the NFC sector and...

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Exploring residual profit allocation

Beer, Sebastian; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Hebous, Shafik; … - 2020

Schemes of residual profit allocation (RPA) tax multinationals by allocating their 'routine' profits to countries in … which their activities take place and sharing their remaining 'residual' profit across countries on some formulaic basis …

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FX intervention to stabilize or manipulate the exchange rate? : inference from profitability

Sandri, Damiano - 2020

We analyze the profitability of FX swaps used by the central bank of Brazil to shed light on the rationale for FX intervention. We find that swaps are profitable in expectation, suggesting that FX intervention is used to stabilize the exchange rate in the face of temporary excessive movements...

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The present value of corporate profits : a forecasters’ survey perspective

Andrle, Michal - 2019

This paper presents and discusses the estimates of the present value of corporate profits in the United States from 1984 to 2018. To value the expected income stream, it uses the long-range forecasts of professional forecasters for pre-tax corporate earnings and long-term Treasury note yields,...

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Where have all the profits gone? : European bank profitability over the financial cycle

Detragiache, Enrica; Tressel, Thierry; Turk Ariss, Rima - 2018

The paper investigates EU banks' profitability through the recent financial cycle using banklevel balance sheet and income statement data. We find that banks that were more successful at protecting their profits had a less pronounced deterioration in loan quality and a larger improvement in cost...

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Labor costs and corporate investment in Italy

Garcia-Macia, Daniel - 2020

. Sectoral wage growth seems unrelated to sectoral productivity growth, but is negatively associated with investment. Firm …-level data permit a better identification-by exploiting the interaction between sectoral wage growth (exogenous to the firm) and …

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