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Pinning down the value of statistical life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, William Kip; Woock, … - 2007
Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0.5 million to about $21...
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Some evidence on the importance of sticky wages
Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - 2010
consumer price inflation rate. …
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth? describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276419
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The US inflation-unemployment tradeoff: methodological issues and further evidence
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor - 2009
chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276468
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Publications: German economic research institutes on track
Ketzler, Rolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
themselves. Based on publications in academic journals, the central criterion of research evaluation, research output has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268762
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The effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health
Dalsgaard, Søren; Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Simonsen, Marianne - 2012
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287616
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...
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On the Returns to Training in Portugal
Budría, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2004
This paper investigates the earnings effects of training in the Portuguese labour market. We use the Portuguese Labour Force Survey to classify training according to multiple criteria, including providing institution, purpose, duration, and content of the training activity. First, we establish...
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Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures : Evidence from a Multi-Country Study
Nunziata, Luca; Bowdler, Christopher - 2005
An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262222
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Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2001
and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262571