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Macroeconomic expectations of households amd professional forecasters
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2002
Economists have long emphasized the importance of expectations in determining macroeconomic outcomes Yet there has been almost no recent effort to model actual empirical expectations data; instead macroeconomists usually simply assume expectations are rational This paper shows that while...
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The epidemiology of macroeconomic expectations
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2001
explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …
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Matching frictions, efficiency wages, and unemployment in the USA and the UK
Malcomson, James M.; Mavroeidis, Sophocles - 2007
This paper combines matching frictions with e¢ ciency wages to deter shirking in a model that is estimated for the USA …
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Part-time unemployment and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2011
the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …
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The Effectiveness of Health Screening
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - 2012
Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined...
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Correcting mistakes: Cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States
Elinder, Mikael - 2009
Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate they have voted for. Following Mullainathan and Washington (2009), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve...
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Importing Threat: The Electoral Logic of Economic Relief
Kim, Minju; Gulotty, Robert - 2019
Commercial policies are often only efficient insofar as those harmed can be compensated. In practice, compensatory measures fall far short of distributive harm. We rationalize the paucity of compensation as a strategic effort on the part of elected officials to withhold information about effects...
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The impact of inflation targeting on unemployment in developing and emerging economies
Divino, Jose Angelo - 2009
targeting affect unemployment, economic growth and the output gap. The results show that inflation targeting causes no harm to … employment in developing and emerging countries. On the contrary, it might reduce average unemployment and narrow the output gap …
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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004
The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - 2002
We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
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