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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Poggi, Ambra - 2007

Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the economics literature. In this paper we explore the inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and...

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?

O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007

penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain … remains unexplained by differences in observed characteristics (except in Italy). Overall, results suggest that policy …

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Innovation and Productivity Across Four European Countries

Griffith, Rachel - 2007

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a considerable number of national firm-level studies analysing...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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New Approaches to the Study of Long-Term Non-Employment Duration in Italy, Germany and Spain

Contini, Bruno - 2017

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using …

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Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain : Evidence from the Metalworking Industry

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2020

set in the metalworking industry with labor market histories of metalworkers drawn from Social Security records in Italy … evidence for earlier periods is mixed in Italy, the results do not support the view that the wage structure reflects labor …

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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin : Is There a Role for Policy?

Doorley, Karina - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...

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The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth

Kaplan, Greg - 2014

accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and …

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Nonlinearities in Sovereign Risk Pricing : The Role of CDS Index Contracts

Delatte, Anne-Laure - 2014

Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...

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