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Retirement, Recessions and Older Small Business Owners
Gurley-Calvez, Tami - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088736
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Home Production as a Substitute to Market Consumption? Estimating the Elasticity Using Houseprice Shocks from the Great Recession
Been, Jim - 2016
The theory of home production suggests substitutability between market consumption and home production. The current paper estimates the intratemporal elasticity between home production and market consumption from within-person variation. Shocks in houseprices induced by the Great Recession are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997166
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Baby-boom, baby-bust and the Great Depression
Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - 2014
The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that links the latter to the Great Depression and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458480
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Job Flows, Jobless Recoveries, and the Great Moderation
Faberman, Jason - 2019
This paper uses new data on job creation and job destruction to find evidence of a link between the jobless recoveries of the last two recessions and the recent decline in aggregate volatility known as the Great Moderation. The author finds that the last two recessions are characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217409
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Smoking and the business cycle : evidence from Germany
Kaiser, Micha; Reutter, Mirjam; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2017
macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of … downturn, with an approximately 0.7 percentage point increase for each one percentage point rise in the unemployment rate … percentage point increase in the regional unemployment rate leading to an up to 0.8 percent decrease in consumption. …
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Entrepreneurship over the business cycle in the United States: a decomposition
Fossen, Frank M. - 2019
mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056959
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Inequality in the impact of the coronavirus shock : evidence from real time surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207117
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Inequality in the impact of the Coronavirus shock : evidence from real time surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211549
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280688
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Getting back into work after job loss : the role of partner effects
Bryan, Mark L.; Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
We investigate the reaction of couples to a job loss during periods of growth and recession in the UK focussing on re-employment of the spouse who lost their job. Re-employment was faster for those with a partner in work, but was not generally affected by other measures of the partner’s labour...
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