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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021
: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
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Labor Market Status and Transitions During the Pre-Retirement Years : Learning from International Differences
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van Soest, Arthur; … - 2021
Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. We use the American PSID and the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to explain differences in prevalence and...
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What Calls to Arms? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Badarinza, Cristian - 2014
The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...
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Saving and Cohabitation : The Economic Consequences of Living with One'S Parents in Italy and the Netherlands
Alessie, Rob; Brugiavini, Agar; Weber, Guglielmo - 2021
from Italy and the Netherlands. It presents a two-period gametheoretical model where the child has to decide whether to …. We find strong positive effects of the child income share on the saving rate in Italy, where we calculate saving as the … also find some significant effects of the child income share on household saving rate in the Netherlands, where saving is …
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The Size and Composition of Wealth Holdings in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands
Kapteyn, Arie; Panis, Constantijn - 2021
This paper analyzes retirement saving and portfolio choice in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. While … worth and gross wealth should be highest in Italy, that Dutch households should hold the lowest wealth levels at retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230997
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S
Kapteyn, Arie - 2010
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151371
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Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs Since the 1960s : Which Institutions Really Mattered?
Allard, Gayle J. - 2010
How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some cases and wrong in others. Protectionist labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760709
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Covid-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...
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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for Emu
Obstfeld, Maurice; Peri, Giovanni - 2021
pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …
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Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Meghir, Costas; … - 2022
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
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