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When Credit Dries Up : Job Losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel - 2013

.5 percentage points due to weak-bank attachment, representing between 8% and 36% of aggregate job losses …

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Peng, Fei - 2006

This paper analyzes the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Italy using the European Community Household Panel …. Stayers are the large majority. We find stayers in Northern Italy to have high cyclicality of real wages, higher in fact than … the North of Italy operate much more competitively than in the Centre and South …

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The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy During the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis

Piazzalunga, Daniela - 2016

The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU …

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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis

Askitas, Nikos - 2011

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...

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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions

Eichhorst, Werner - 2010

The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in relation to output or GDP reductions varies...

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Giving Up Job Search During a Recession : The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market

Verick, Sher - 2011

The global financial crisis deeply impacted the South African labour market resulting in the shedding of almost 1 million jobs over 2009 and 2010. Reflecting longer term structural problems, this employment loss translated into a much larger rise in the number of discouraged individuals rather...

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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

The international business cycle is very important for Latin America's economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have altered the transmission mechanism of...

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Surviving the Crisis : Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland

Godart, Olivier - 2011

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...

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The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...

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The Labor Market Consequences of Adverse Financial Shocks

Boeri, Tito - 2012

The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document that financial recessions amplify labor market volatility and Okun's elasticity over the...

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