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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...

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A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory : Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

Trzcinski, Eileen - 2011

This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...

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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

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The Future of Retirement and the Pension System : How the Public's Expectations Vary Over Time and Across Socio-Economic Groups

Bissonnette, Luc - 2011

We analyze expectations of the Dutch population of ages 25 and older concerning the future generosity state and occupational pensions, the two main pillars of the Dutch pension system. Since the summer of 2006, monthly survey data were collected on the expectations of Dutch households concerning...

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Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?

Azam, Mehtabul - 2012

To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates...

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Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes Over the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2015

We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...

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Policies in Hard Times : Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms

Gokmen, Gunes - 2020

It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...

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The German Labor Market During the Great Recession : Shocks and Institutions

Gehrke, Britta - 2018

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...

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Preventing Neets During the Great Recession : The Effects of a Mandatory Activation Program for Young Welfare Recipients

Emile, Cammeraat - 2017

discontinuity to estimate the effects of the reform. We find that the reform reduced the number of NEETs on welfare, increased the … number of NEETs not on welfare, and had no effect on the overall number of NEETs. Our finding that the reform did not reduce … the total number of NEETs contrasts with previous studies, which may be due to the fact that the reform took place during …

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Impact of the Great Recession on Industry Unemployment : A 1976-2011 Comparison

Takhtamanova, Yelena F. - 2016

This paper studies the mechanisms driving the persistently high unemployment rate during the last recession and mild recovery. Previous studies have examined the demographic aspect of the recession. We focus on specific industries. Consequently, we propose a methodology to decompose changes in...

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