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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
Eichhorst, Werner - 2010
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in relation to output or GDP reductions varies...
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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?
Saka, Orkun - 2019
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868012
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Income Tax Policy in Europe between Two Crises : From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Myck, Michal; Trzciński, Kajetan - 2022
revenues, which could offer additional resources, in particular at a time of high inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030811
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Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe
Dolls, Mathias - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143688
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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
Abbritti, Mirko - 2012
and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the … volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107467
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Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
Askitas, Nikos - 2011
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127723
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136951
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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings : A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2011
While results are starting to emerge, not much is known yet about the dynamics of the labor markets of the former Eastern economies, especially in the context of the current Financial Crisis. Arguably, this is mainly due to paucity of (panel) data. By examining labor market transitions, earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117835
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Giving Up Job Search During a Recession : The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market
Verick, Sher - 2011
The global financial crisis deeply impacted the South African labour market resulting in the shedding of almost 1 million jobs over 2009 and 2010. Reflecting longer term structural problems, this employment loss translated into a much larger rise in the number of discouraged individuals rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118055
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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries
Khanna, Gaurav - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120422