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Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations : Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects
Casoria, Fortuna - 2013
This survey focuses on experimental labor markets investigating two aspects that deem us important for a better understanding of labor market relations and the consequences for labor market policies. The first part of the survey is dedicated to papers that assess the prevalence of reciprocal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088665
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Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded 9 percent of GDP. The current paper presents a unified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098458
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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances : Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?
Baas, Timo - 2014
Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wide-ranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....
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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union
Baas, Timo - 2018
For more than two decades now, current-account imbalances are a crucial issue in the international policy debate as they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government debt crisis of the European Union shows that internal current account imbalances inside a currency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930946
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021
productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325040
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Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain : Accounting for Differences in the Supports
Nicodemo, Catia - 2011
The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account differences in their characteristics and the need to control for common support. Using the microdata from the Social Security Records (MCVL) and with a matching procedure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128217
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Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany Via Conditional Heteroskedasticity
Saniter, Nils - 2012
In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a new method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099756
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The Timing of Earnings Sampling Over the Life-Cycle and IV Identification of the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian - 2012
We show that within a life-cycle skill accumulation model, IV identification of the return to schooling parameter is either achieved at any point in the life-cycle where the level of skills accumulated beyond school completion for compliers is exactly equal to the post-schooling skill level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103476
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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
McDermott, Grant R. - 2013
Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper analyses the effect of water scarcity and increased river temperatures on German electricity prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089970
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Policy Evaluation Using Causal Inference Methods
Fougère, Denis - 2020
This chapter describes the main impact evaluation methods, both experimental and quasi-experimental, and the statistical model underlying them. Some of the most important methodological advances to have recently been put forward in this field of research are presented. We focus not only on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843149