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Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending : Theory and Empirical Evidence
Marchesi, Silvia - 2014
the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750944
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Aggregate Earnings and Macroeconomic Shocks : The Role of Labour Market Policies and Institutions
Bassanini, Andrea - 2012
I examine the effect of labour market policies and institutions on the transmission of macroeconomic shocks to the labour market, using both aggregate and industry-level annual data for 23 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and up to 29 years. I find that high and progressive labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099104
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The Macroeconomics of Automation : Data, Theory, and Policy Analysis
Jaimovich, Nir - 2020
The U.S. economy has experienced a significant drop in the fraction of the population employed in middle wage, "routine task-intensive" occupations. Applying machine learning techniques, we identify characteristics of those who used to be employed in such occupations and show they are now less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843158
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Families in Macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996540
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Interest Rate Hysteresis in Macroeconomic Investment Under Uncertainty
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019
The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under the scenarios of both certainty and uncertainty. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863765
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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition : Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155562
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Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2019
Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896759
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The Cost of Acting 'Girly' : Gender Stereotypes and Educational Choices
Favara, Marta - 2013
This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor … (2000), I research whether gender identity affects boys' and girls' educational choices and when the gendered pattern … appears first. Further, I test the hypothesis that single-sex schools attenuate the influence of gender-stereotypes. I use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089395
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Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
Iyigun, Murat - 2016
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000074
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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations : Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Reuben, Ernesto - 2013
competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076510