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Disability in Belgium : There is More than Meets the Eye
Jousten, Alain - 2011
The paper provides a perspective on the development of the Belgian disability insurance system. Using both survey and administrative data, it sketches a picture of the (changing) factors leading towards disability, as well as the outcomes in terms of program participation. The paper shows the...
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Importers, Exporters, and Exchange Rate Disconnect
Amiti, Mary - 2012
Large exporters are simultaneously large importers. In this paper, we show that this pattern is key to understanding low aggregate exchange rate pass-through as well as the variation in pass-through across exporters. First, we develop a theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to...
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Concording EU Trade and Production Data Over Time
Van Beveren, Ilke - 2012
This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a,b), the paper...
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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle
Kydland, Finn - 2012
Over the U.S. business cycle, fluctuations in residential investment are well known to systematically lead GDP. These dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is broadly coincident with GDP. Nonresidential investment...
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Carry-Along Trade
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2012
the relationships between firm productivity and the numbers of exported products observed in the data, several demand and … theoretical extension based on demand-scope complementarities …
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Product Differentiation, Multi-Product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity
De Loecker, Jan - 2007
estimates still capture price and demand shocks which are most likely to be correlated with the change in the operating … demand system. I combine a unique data set containing matched plant-level and product-level information with detailed product …-level quota protection information to recover estimates for productivity as well as parameters of the demand side (markups). I …
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Social Security Incentives in Belgium : An Analysis of Four Decades of Change
Fraikin, Anne-Lore - 2018
performance in Belgium. The results show that the numerous retirement and social security program reforms have had a marked impact …
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The Role of Exporters and Domestic Producers in Gvcs : Evidence for Belgium Based on Extended National Supply-and-Use Tables Integrated into a Global Multiregional Input-Output Tab...
Michel, Bernhard - 2018
-oriented manufacturers generate substantial value added in other Belgian firms, in particular providers of services; c) Belgium's backward …
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The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity : A Production Network Approach
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2019
. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a … model in which firms buy inputs from upstream suppliers and sell to downstream buyers and final demand. Larger firm size can …
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Wage Structure and Firm Productivity in Belgium
Lallemand, Thierry - 2010
The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we analyse the structure of wages within and between Belgian firms. Next, we examine how the productivity of these firms is influenced by their internal wage dispersion. To do so, we use a large matched employer-employee data set (i.e., a...
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