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The cohorts of women born at the turn of the 20th century increased markedly their participation in the labor market when older. These are the first cohorts who worked after their childbearing years. In this paper, we document a link between their work behavior and the Great Depression. We show...
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The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that links the latter to the Great Depression and the...
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This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...
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immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …
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This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany … Germany, we establish that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune between 1926 and 2019, i.e., they moved from … the lower to the upper median of the income distribution or vice versa. Economic decline is concentrated in North Germany …
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We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....
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initiated by Shimer (2005): in an economy with search on credit and labor markets, a financial multiplier raises the elasticity …
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The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency for oil. This paper examines how these dynamics result in a misalignment of the U.S. monetary...
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been generated by short-term supply side problems, rather than excessive demand in the economy. Under these conditions …, just as in the Great Recession we anticipate deflation in the near future, coupled with rising joblessness and recession …
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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
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