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Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2006

Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...

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The role of race and birth place in welfare usage among comparable women: Evidence from the US

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2011

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

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Economic crises, maternal and infant mortality, low birth weight and enrollment rates: Evidence from Argentina's downturns

Cruces, Guillermo; Glüzmann, Pablo; Calva López, Luis … - 2011

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the inter-temporal and the cross-provincial co-variation between changes in regional GDP and outcomes by...

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Short-time work benefits revisited: Some lessons from the Great Recession

Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011

The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in place. In some countries like Italy, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the...

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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis: US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Crisis, what crisis? Patterns of adaptation in European labor markets

Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - 2010

The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...

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Health and well-being in the crisis

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 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...

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The weight of the crisis: Evidence from newborns in Argentina

Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great Depression. In this article we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious but...

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Labor demand during the crisis: What happened in Germany?

Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - 2011

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms' labor demand during the crisis using a firm-level...

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Another economic miracle? The German labor market and the great recession

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed to this development...

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