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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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Bubble Economics and Structural Change : The Cases of Spain and France Compared
Agnese, Pablo - 2015
with different equilibria descriptive of the labor markets in Spain and France, where the unemployment rates went from the …
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Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States
Gaggl, Paul - 2020
Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for...
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119012
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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States
Marx, Paul - 2019
-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …
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Time Allocation between Work and Family Over the Life-Cycle : A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart; Mencarini, Letizia; … - 2021
division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …
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The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why are They Lower than in the United States?)
Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2021
We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our … using state of the art bayesian methods employing a long panel (1976-1995) for France. Our results clearly show that returns … rationale for this phenomenon. Specifically, in a low-mobility country such as France, there is little gain in compensating …
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The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change : Evidence from China
Erten, Bilge; Leight, Jessica; Zhu, Lianming - 2023
How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI...
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Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale : Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker
Sasaki, Masaru - 2013
This paper estimates the factors affecting the relationship between the wins and losses of corporate sports club teams and the work morale of employees, using an original survey of employees from a selected Japanese automobile maker. We find that corporate sports club teams' performance is an...
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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb : Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles
Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low...
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