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An essay on the generational effect of employment protection

Chen, Yu-Fu - 2009

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The Outlook for the U.S. Economy: Soft or Hard Landing?

Bosworth, Barry - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 1, pp. 14-20

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THE U.S., ECONOMY: RECESSION AHEAD? Pro: Weakness Will Persist

Dudley, William - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 1, pp. 28

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THE U.S., ECONOMY: RECESSION AHEAD? Contra: Economy Rebounding

Fosler, Gail - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 1, pp. 29-30

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Cyclicality of real wages in the USA and Germany: New insights from wavelet analysis

Marczak, Martyna; Gómez, Víctor - 2012

This article provides new insights into the cyclical behavior of consumer and producer real wages in the USA and … cyclical patterns over time. From the findings of our study, we can infer that the USA and Germany differ with respect to the … lead-lag relationship of real wages and the business cycle. In the USA, both real wages are leading the business cycle in …

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Implications of the Changes in the System of National Accounts for Measured Growth and the Business Cycle

Vanhoudt, Patrick - 2002

The recent changes in the national accounts unequivocally imply that the nature of the measured growth rate and business cycle has changed. This note investigates to what extent.

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The influence of the business cycle on mortality

Reichmuth, Wolfgang H.; Sarferaz, Samad - 2008

We analyze the impact of short-run economic fluctuations on age-specific mortality using Bayesian time series econometrics and contribute to the debate on the procyclicality of mortality. For the first time, we examine the differing consequences of economic changes for all individual age...

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Lee-Carter and the macroeconomy

Hanewald, Katja - 2009

Using data for six OECD countries, this paper studies the effect of macroeconomic conditions on the mortality index kt in the well-known Lee-Carter model. Significant correlations are found with real GDP growth rates in Australia, Canada, and the United States, and with unemployment rate changes...

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Re-employment probabilities over the business cycle

Imbens, Guido W.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2006

Using a Cox proportional hazard model that allows for a flexible time dependence in order to incorporate business cycle effects, we analyze the determinants of reemployment probabilities of young workers in the U.S. from 1978-1989. We find considerable changes in the chances of young workers...

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Occupational mobility and the business cycle

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Vella, Francis - 2008

Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual...

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