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Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development : Some International Evidence

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

sustainable development indicators (prosperity, resilience, and inclusivity). We provide country studies of Chile, Poland, South …

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COVID-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...

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Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption …. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the … Poland. And it is certainly conceivable that the same policies and country characteristics (not always visible to the …

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Regime Changes and FDI : A Tale of Two Countries – Poland and Israel

Razin, Asaf; Cieślik, Andrzej - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

regime change, the essay spotlights the tale of two countries: Poland and Israel. The liberalization of the Polish economy … and market reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s boosted Poland's attractiveness to international companies. However …, decades-long of illiberal policies under the PiS regime has reduced Poland's appeal to foreign investors. Similarly, Israel …

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The unequal effects of liberalization : evidence from dismantling the Licence Raj in India

Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen; … - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 4, pp. 1397-1412

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Gender differences in the labor market : impact of IRCA's amnesty provisions

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia; Raphael, Steven - In: The American economic review 97 (2007) 2, pp. 412-416

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Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement

Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multi-dimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....

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A labor market view on the risks of a U.S. hard landing

Domash, Alex; Summers, Lawrence Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses historical labor market data to assess the plausibility that the Federal Reserve can engineer a soft landing for the economy. We first show that the labor market today is significantly tighter than implied by the unemployment rate: the vacancy and quit rates currently experienced...

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Labor Markets and Evaluations of Vocational Training Programs in the Public High Schools - Toward a Framework for Analysis

Gustman, Alan L. - 1980

A simplified model is constructed to analyze the role played by vocational training programs In high schools. The model assumes that there are two kinds of educational programs in high schools, vocational and general. It also assumes that there are two types of jobs for high school graduates....

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How Much of Barrier to Entry is Occupational Licensing?

Blair, Peter Q. - 2018

We exploit state variation in licensing laws to study the effect of licensing on occupational choice using a boundary discontinuity design. We find that licensing reduces equilibrium labor supply by an average of 17%-27%. The negative labor supply effects of licensing appear to be strongest for...

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