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How successful are exchange rate communication and interventions? Evidence from time-series and event-study approaches
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005
The paper analyses whether communication and actual interventions in FX markets are successful in moving exchange rates over the medium- to long-run. It compares empirical evidence based on time-series analysis with that obtained from an eventstudy approach. Both the time-series approach based...
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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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Immigration Policies: Competing for Skills
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 4, pp. 27-33
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The Financial Crisis in Japan – Are There Similarities to the Current Situation?
Mayr, Johannes - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 64-68
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Do Strict Electoral Campaign Finance Rules Limit Corruption?
Stratmann, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 1, pp. 24-27
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Are Japanese households financially healthy, and if so, why? A Group of Seven (G7) comparison
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012
In this paper, I conduct an international comparison of the financial health of households using data on household wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were the highest among the G7 countries, at least until 2000,...
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Short hours, long hours: Hour levels and trends in the retail industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Carré, Françoise; Tilly, Chris - 2012
In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate - primarily service-producing activities - total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...
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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2018
We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
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Automation, Digitalization, and Changes in Occupational Structures in the Automobile Industry in Germany, the United States, and Japan: A Brief History from the Early 1990s Until 2...
Krzywdzinski, Martin - 2020
approaches to automation and digitalization have been pursued in the automotive industry in Germany, Japan and the USA? Second … Bureau of Labor Statistics (USA), the Federal Employment Agency (Germany) and the Statistics Bureau of Japan. The study … questions the perception of an automation-related threat to employment and especially to production employment. At the same time …
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