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Public employment and women : the impact of Argentina's Jefes Program on female heads of poor households
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. (contributor);  … - 2007
households, and yet more than 70 percent of the people who turned up for work were women. The present paper evaluates the … problems, is well received by participants, and serves the needs of women particularly well. Some of the benefits women report … empowerment through work. -- Argentina ; Jefes y Jefas ; Public Employment ; Women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727245
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What do poor women want? : public employment or cash transfers? ; lessons from Argentina
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
, turned out to be poor women. For a number of reasons that are explored below, the program was later reformed into a cash … relative impact of such policies on some of the most vulnerable members of society; namely, poor women. An examination of the … Argentine experience based on survey evidence and fieldwork reveals that poor women overwhelmingly want paid work opportunities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485786
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Expectations, monetary policy, and labor markets : lessons from the Great Depression
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2009
This paper estimates a series of shocks to hit the US economy during the Great Depression, using a New Keynesian model with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the cyclical behavior of employment, while an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872040
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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204043
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(Spillover) effects of labour market reforms in Germany and France
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
In this paper we analyze the (potential) effects of labour market and fiscal policy reforms by heterogeneous European countries - Germany and France - on the domestic and foreign economy. We test the implications of the gains in matching efficiency and reduced unemployment benefits induced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432449
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What explains the German labor market miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2011
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion - associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last - contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151656
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"Mismatch" in the labor market and inflation : an integrative model with lessons from the Spanish experience
Pérez Trujillo, Manuel; Ruesga Benito, Santos; Sell, … - 2018
The Great Recession (2009/10) resulted in the need of different economic policies and structural reforms to boost economic growth both in the advanced and in the emerging economies. In this paper, we start from a theoretical concept that is relatively new - the modified output gap (MOG), based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946383
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Exchange rates and the money demand process ...
Savaş, Bilal (contributor) - 2008
The money demand process in Turkey during the period 1987:1-2002:3 can be explained better in the sense of Cagan (1956) rather than in the sense of Sargent et al. (1973). Cagan assumes the exogeneity of money. Sargent et al. suggest the endogeneity of money. Implicitly, the money supply process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719081
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Macroeconomic management amid ethnic diversity : fifty years of Malaysian experience
Menon, Jayant (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the role that macroeconomic policy management has played in the Malaysian development experience. Given the multiracial nature of Malaysian society, macroeconomic policy has not only been about economic stabilization, but also about addressing income disparities along racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719212
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Fiscal policy rules in practice
Thams, Andreas (contributor) - 2007
This paper analyzes German and Spanish fiscal policy using simple policy rules. We choose Germany and Spain, as both are Member States in the European Monetary Union (EMU) and underwent considerable increases in public debt in the early 1990s.We focus on the question, how fiscal policy behaves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003633561