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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
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Did Germany exploit its small trading partners? : the nature of the German interwar and wartime trade policies revisited from the Swedish experience
Hedberg, Peter; Håkansson, Elias - In: Scandinavian economic history review 56 (2008) 3, pp. 246-270
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Makroökonomische Politik in Deutschland, Großbritannien und Schweden
Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 87 (2007) 11, pp. 732-741
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German stagnation versus Swedish progression : gender wage gaps in comparison, 1960 - 2006
Gärtner, Svenja - In: Scandinavian economic history review 62 (2014) 2, pp. 137-162
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Stockholms Enskilda Bank, German Bosch and IG Farben : a short history of cloaking
Aalders, Gerard; Wiebes, Cees - In: Scandinavian economic history review 33 (1985) 1, pp. 25-50
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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Political Risk Versus Market Risk in Social Security
Shoven, John B. - 2010
Pay-as-you-go Social Security is typically characterized as a universal defined benefit pension program. Implicit in this characterization is a sense that the participant%u2019s investment in future benefits is somehow guaranteed, or safe from risk. This study develops the concept of...
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Central Bank Credibility, Reputation and Inflation Targeting in Historical Perspective
Bordo, Michael D. - 2014
This paper examines the historical evolution of central bank credibility using both historical narrative and empirics for a group of 16 countries, both advanced and emerging. It shows how the evolution of credibility has gone through a pendulum where credibility was high under the classical gold...
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
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