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Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency

Cahuc, Pierre - 2009

We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading … are large, the private gains associated with trading asset bubbles may lead too many workers to become speculators …, thereby causing rational bubbles to lose their efficiency properties. Moreover, if speculation can be carried out by skilled …

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The German Labor Market During the Great Recession : Shocks and Institutions

Gehrke, Britta - 2018

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...

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Impact of the Great Recession on Industry Unemployment : A 1976-2011 Comparison

Takhtamanova, Yelena F. - 2016

This paper studies the mechanisms driving the persistently high unemployment rate during the last recession and mild recovery. Previous studies have examined the demographic aspect of the recession. We focus on specific industries. Consequently, we propose a methodology to decompose changes in...

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The Spanish Productivity Puzzle in the Great Recession

Hospido, Laura - 2015

While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession largely responds to the adverse conditions in the labor market, but not only....

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The Recovery from the Great Recession : A Long, Evolving Expansion

Shambaugh, Jay; Strain, Michael R. - 2021

Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...

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Children in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

Andersen, Carsten; Houmark, Mikkel; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; … - 2022

In this paper we study effects of mass layoffs on parents and their children in the aftermath of the Great Recession using staggered difference-in-differences (DiD). We exploit quasi-experimental variation in announcements of mass layoffs in Danish firms in 2008-2019. We document that parents...

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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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Recession and Deflation?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters for wage growth are the non-employment rate and the...

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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...

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League-Table Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2011

We study experimental markets in which participants face incentives modeled upon those prevailing in markets for managed funds. Each participant's portfolio is periodically evaluated at market value and ranked in a league table according to short-term paper returns. Those who rank highly attract...

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