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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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The regional effects of professional sports franchises : causal evidence from four European football leagues
Brachert, Matthias - 2018
We use the locational pattern of clubs in four major professional football leagues in Europe to test the causal effect of changes in premier league membership on regional employment and output growth at the NUTS 3 level. We rely on the relegation mode of the classical round-robin tournament in...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993348
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098495
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099161
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For some, luck matters more: the impact of the Great Recession on the early careers of graduates from different socio-economic backgrounds
Del Bono, Emilia; Morando, Greta - 2021
This paper uses variation in unemployment caused by the 2008 recession to analyse socio- economic gaps in graduate outcomes. Our data comes from a survey which collects information on several cohorts of students from all English universities and reports their destinations at 6 months after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588935
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009632676
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Economic resilience in Great Britain: the crisis impact and its determining factors for local authority districts
Kitsos, Anastasios; Bishop, Paul - In: The annals of regional science : an international … 60 (2018) 2, pp. 329-347
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003494