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Inequality and Poverty in Greece : Changes in Times of Crisis

Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2017

The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...

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Growing Out of the Crisis : Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013

Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With … an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an …-membership. Instead, Greece exports only its nation's talent, with low returns. To become prosperous, the country must better capitalize …

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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Using micro-data on six surveys the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, 2020-2022, the European Social Survey 2002-2020 and the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 we show...

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Labour Market Reallocation Effects of COVID-19 Policies in Spain : A Tale of Two Recessions

Diaz, Antonia; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jáñez, Álvaro; … - 2023

This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the Great Recession and the pandemic recession (aka the Great Contagion) can both be understood as being driven partially by large sector-specific shocks. However, the latter shows...

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The Finnish Great Depression : From Russia with Love

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...

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Children of Crisis : The Effects of Economic Shocks on Newborns

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2020

In this paper, we explore the deep economic crisis experienced by the Turkish economy in 2001 and 2008 as quasi-experiments to causally identify the association between economically challenging conditions in-utero and child's birth weight. First, we utilize the temporal and spatial variations of...

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Inequality in EU Crisis Countries : How Effective Were Automatic Stabilisers?

Callan, Tim - 2018

The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality and how well tax-benefit systems redistribute. We examine how the distribution of income in the EU countries which were hardest hit during the recession evolved over this time....

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How is the Covid-19 Crisis Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality Among Palestinians in Israel?

Miaari, Sami H. - 2020

The paper gives us a first look on the unique effects of the crisis on the Arab minority in Israel. It contributes to our understanding on how economic and epidemic crises affect marginalized ethnic minorities and informs decision makers while formulating policies to deal with the crisis's...

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Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression

Giulietti, Corrado - 2020

This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in a sample of U.S. adolescents who are followed into adulthood. An increase of one standard...

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This Time it's Different : The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession

Alon, Titan - 2020

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue...

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