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Business Fluctuations, Job Flows and Trade Unions - Dynamics in the Economy
Schirwitz, Beate - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
behaviour of trade unions? To approach these questions theoretical as well as empirical methods were used. The empirical methods …
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Der Machtressourcenansatz: Ein Instrument zur Analyse gewerkschaftlichen Handlungsvermoegens (The power resource approach: An instrument to analyze trade union action capabilities)
Schmalz, Stefan; Doerre, Klaus - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 3, pp. 217-237
of trade unions and analyze their renewal. The shift in focus is also reflected in theory. Today, research is mainly … concerned with power resources of workers and unions who confront changing institutional and economic conditions. This paper … power to promote their interests. We discuss the recent comeback of German trade unions after the global economic crisis in …
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Chile; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper for Chile describes the postcrisis recovery experience. The recovery from the 2008–2009 global crisis has been markedly different both among advanced and emerging economies. The steady improvement in the labor wedge-distortions related to the consumption leisure...
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The role of expectations in economic fluctuations and the efficacy of monetary policy
Kurz, Mordecai; Jin, Hehui; Motolese, Maurizio - Center for Financial Studies - 2003
monetary policy. Since expectations affect demand, our theory shows economic fluctuations are mostly driven by varying demand …
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Do institutions and culture matter for business cycles?
Altug, Sumru; Canova, Fabio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012
We examine the relationship between institutions, culture and cyclical fluctuations for a sample of 45 European, Middle Eastern and North African countries. Better governance is associated with shorter and less severe contractions and milder expansions. Certain cultural traits, such as lack of...
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Forecasting US Recessions: The Role of Sentiments
Christiansen, Charlotte; Eriksen, Jonas Nygaard; … - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2013
We examine sentiment variables as new predictors for US recessions. We combine sentiment variables with either classical recession predictors or with common factors based on a large panel of macroeconomic and ?nancial variables. Sentiment variables hold vast predictive power for US recessions in...
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Noisy News in Business Cycles
Forni, Mario; Gambetti, Luca; Lippi, Marco; Sala, Luca - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2014
The contribution of the present paper is twofold. First, we show that in a situation where agents can only observe a noisy signal of the shock to future economic fundamentals, the "noisy news", SVAR models can still be successfully employed to estimate the shock and the associated impulse...
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Modern Perspectives on Stabilization Policies
Gali, Jordi - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
The present paper describes recent research on two central themes of Keynes' General Theory: (i) the social waste …
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Do labor market rigidities matter for business cycles? Yes they do
Gnocchi, Stefano; Pappa, Evi - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
We study whether labor market institutions affect the volatility and correlations of macroeconomic variables for a sample of 20 OECD countries. Labor market rigidities are characterized with a number of indicators; volatilities and correlations are computed in several ways. Union coverage and...
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MEASUREMENT AND PATTERNS OF INTERNATIONAL SYNCHRONIZATION-- A SPECTRAL APPROACH
Dua, Pami; Sharma, Vineeta - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 2013
This paper examines the issue of international synchronization of cycles. Using spectral methods we analyze the pattern of co-movement (coherences) of growth rate cycles between countries across frequency bands and overtime. We also examine the lead-lag structure (phase shifts) of country cycles...
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