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What effects do macroeconomic conditions have on families' time together?
Morill, Melinda Sandler; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2012
We examine family time together using data from the 2003-2010 American Time Use Survey combined with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on state-level unemployment rates. Couple time together is U-shaped; while fathers spend more time engaging in enriching childcare activities without a spouse...
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Familienpolitik: Förderung von Familien - nach welchem Konzept?
Stewens, Christa; Ristau, Malte; Klingholz, Reiner; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 09, pp. 3-21
richtige? Christa Stewens, Bayerische Staatsministerin für Arbeit und Sozialordnung, Familie und Frauen, unterstreicht, dass … Familienpolitik "ganzheitlich und nachhaltig angelegt sein" muss. Auch Malte Ristau, Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen … AG, Basel, muss sich die Familienpolitik an das neue Familienbild anpassen und sowohl Gestaltungsfreiräume für Familie …
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Re-examining the role of sticky wages in the U.S. Great Contraction: A multi-sector approach
Amaral, Pedro S.; MacGee, James C. - 2012
We quantify the role of contractionary monetary shocks and wage rigidities in the U.S. Great Contraction. While the average economy-wide real wage varied little over 1929-33, real wages rose significantly in some industries. We calibrate a two-sector model with intermediates to the 1929 U.S....
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The role of production sharing and trade in the transmission of the great recession
Wibe, Jacob - 2012
The great recession of 2008-2009 resulted in a large fall in trade relative to output. Real trade fell roughly three times more than real GDP in the U.S. and Mexico, and by a factor of five in Canada. The decline in trade and output was particularly large in sectors with high levels of...
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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Revenue bubbles and structural deficits: What's a state to do?
Mattoon, Richard; McGranahan, Leslie - 2008
The 2001 recession proved alarming to state government finances. A relatively shallow national recession led to a severe downturn in state revenues that took three years to unwind. In the current economic downturn, early signs of fiscal stress are already apparent. This raises several...
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Can structural small open economy models account for the influence of foreign disturbances?
Justiniano, Alejandro; Preston, Bruce - 2009
This paper demonstrates that an estimated, structural, small open-economy model of the Canadian economy cannot account for the substantial influence of foreign-sourced disturbances identified in numerous reduced-form studies. The benchmark model assumes uncorrelated shocks across countries and...
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Cyclical dumping and US antidumping protection: 1980 - 2001
Crowley, Meredith - 2009
This paper estimates the impact of economic conditions in foreign industries on the filing of antidumping petitions by US industries and the US government's decision in preliminary and final antidumping investigations. Exploiting cross-country variation in economic shocks in manufacturing, I...
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Productivity, energy prices, and the great moderation: A new link
Dhawan, Rajeev; Jeske, Karsten; Silos, Pedro - 2008
We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a joint stochastic process for the energy price and TFP and establish that until the second quarter of 1982, energy prices negatively affected productivity. This spillover has...
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Policy Risk and the Business Cycle
Born, Benjamin; Peifer, Johannes - 2011
The argument that policy risk, i.e. uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New...
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