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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058461
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Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?
Hübler, Olaf - 2010
Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at the lower end of the hierarchy, as quantile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147545
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss
Hamermesh, Daniel; Myck, Michal; Oczkowska, Monika - 2022
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
Paulus, Alari - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153502
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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the 'Dying Seconds' of International Football Matches
van Ours, Jan C. - 2010
national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national …
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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...
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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021
Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129942
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Intra-Household Time Allocation : Gender Differences in Caring for Children
Garcia-Mainar, Inmaculada - 2009
characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159340