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Hours worked of the self-employed and agglomeration

Cai, Zhengyu - 2018

This paper investigates the causal effects of agglomeration on hours worked by the self-employed. The IV estimations instrument for urbanization and localization using the minimum distance from the work Public Use Microdata Area centroid to the United States' coastlines and estimated industry...

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Financial Shocks or Productivity Slowdown : Contrasting the Great Recession and Recovery in the United States and United Kingdom

Larkin, Kieran - 2023

This article contrasts the experiences of the United States and United Kingdom during and after the Great Recession to understand the role of financial shocks in the magnitude of the crises and length of the recoveries. It starts from the common consensus that the Great Recession first and...

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Quantitative Easing of an International Financial Centre : How Central London Came So Well Out of the Post-2007 Crisis

Gordon, Ian R. - 2016

This paper documents and seeks to explain the remarkably positive employment trends of a central area of London in the years since the onset of the financial crisis. The volatility of this economy since the 1980s had suggested the likelihood of a sharp loss of jobs, maybe followed by a strong...

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What makes cities more productive? : evidence on the role of urban governance from five OECD countries

Ahrend, Rudiger; Farchy, Emily; Kaplanis, Ioannis; … - 2014

(Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental …

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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence

Sala, Luca - 2012

price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence

Sala, Luca - 2012

price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching effi ciency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

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Structural and cyclical forces in the labor market during the great recession : cross-country evidence

Sala, Luca; Söderström, Ulf; Trigari, Antonella - 2012

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Migration and fiscal policy as factors explaining the labour-market resilience of UK regions to the Great Recession

Bell, David N. F.; Eiser, David - In: Cambridge journal of regions economy and society 9 (2016) 1, pp. 197-215

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Changing patterns of fiscal policy multipliers in Germany, the UK and the US

Cimadomo, Jacopo; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - In: Journal of macroeconomics 34 (2012) 3, pp. 845-873

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Productivity Differences and Agglomeration Across Districts of Great Britain

Anastassova, Lubomira - 2008

This paper examines the impact of employment density (agglomeration) on the hourly earnings of workers across districts of Great Britain. The potentially two-way causality between agglomeration and productivity is dealt with using two instruments: the total land area of a district and its...

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