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US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms …Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the …-held perceptions during the boom years before the crisis, the paper underscores that the global economy was by no means as stable as …
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crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and … rising poverty. As the crisis gained momentum, the action of automatic stabilisation mechanisms built into the national tax … risks associated with the crisis across socio-economic groups. The present paper aims to investigate and assess to what …
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The international business cycle is very important for Latin America's economic performance as the recent global crisis … world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three …
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plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …
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hardest hit by the subsequent crisis. We present a model where higher turbulence benefits decentralized firms because the … international differences in post-crisis GDP growth …
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Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are...
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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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Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examine the impact of the Great Recession on subjective well-being (as measured by life satisfaction) and attempt to identify disparate effects by age. We find that those...
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In this paper we analyze a mechanism that is particularly relevant to the workings of the Great Recession: we explain how easier home financing and higher homeownership rates increase unemployment rates. To this purpose we build a model of job search with liquid wealth accumulation and...
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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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