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How Does Debt Relief Impact Consumption? : Evidence from a Policy Experiment
Tantri, Prasanna L. - 2017
We investigate the impact of a large scale debt waiver program for small agricultural borrowers in India on the short term and long term consumption levels of the beneficiaries. We obtain consumption data from three national level surveys conducted before and after the waiver by a federal...
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Small firms amidst COVID-19 : financial constraints and role of government support
Chundakkadan, Radeef; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sasidharan, Subash - In: Economic notes 51 (2022) 3, pp. 1-24
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Unpacking Impact of COVID-19 on Vietnamese Firms : Evidence from a Novel Survey
Dabla-Norris, Era; Nguyen, Anh Thi Ngoc; Zhang, Y. Sophia; … - 2022
Using a unique representative panel survey of Vietnamese enterprises in 2020, we find that the pandemic and associated government support package had a heterogenous impact across firms. The government support package, particularly tax cuts and deferrals, helped alleviate short term stress, but...
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Derivatives and Fundamentals of Evaluation
Spina, Joel - 2014
Derivatives are financial instruments used to manage risk. They consist of contractual agreements that establish transactions to be executed at a future date. The value of such transactions derive from the price of underlying assets, such as bonds, stocks, commodities, or currencies, explaining...
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Inherited Corporate Control and Inequality : Evidence from the COVID Crisis
Bordeerath, Bordin - 2023
This paper examines wealth inequality during the COVID crisis. Measuring inequality by comparing growth of billionaires' wealth with that of equity markets, I find that the COVID crisis causes inequality to grow more rapidly by 23.6 ppt and even more in low-income countries where heir...
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Do childcare policies increase maternal employment? : subsidized childcare fosters maternal employment, but employment status, childcare quality, and availability matter
Vuri, Daniela - 2016
employment. Family policies that subsidize childcare and increase its availability have different effects on female labor supply … may depend on countryspecific pre-reform female employment and earnings, and childcare availability, costs, and quality. …
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
(employment) at proximate stores decrease by 4% (2.1%). Exits, especially of young and small stores, increase, and entry decreases …
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The effects of private versus public health insurance on health and labor market outcomes
Dauth, Christine - 2021
affects the specific health and employment outcomes of employed workers over a period of nine years. We exploit administrative … employment outcomes. …
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The Dutch labour market early on in the COVID-19 outbreak: regional coronavirus hotspots and the national lockdown
Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne; Meekes, Jordy - 2020
market outcomes, as measured by employment, working hours and hourly wages, were more strongly affected in provinces where …
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The effects of a place-based tax cut and minimum wage increase on labor market outcomes
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Delgado, Victor; Rodas, Alexis - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/12, pp. 1-24
the region. Given the unique features of the NBFZ, we estimate its short-run effects on labor outcomes: employment, wages … data at the municipality level for the period 2015-2019. Using administrative data for formal employment, we find that the … employment are less clear. Formal employment showed 1.6% less growth in the NBFZ than in the control municipalities, but the …
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