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Equity premium in Finland and long-term performance of the Finnish equity and money markets

Nyberg, Peter; Vaihekoski, Mika - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 2, pp. 241-269

analyzed and compared to similar series from Sweden and USA. Continuously compounded nominal returns in Finland have been high …

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Falling real wages

Blanchflower, David; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

The researchers note that there have been historically unprecedented falls in UK real wages since the start of the Great Recession. What's more, the long US experience of stagnant real wages (median real weekly earnings in the United States in 2013 were at about the same level as in 1979) might...

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A Vector Autoregressive Forecasting Model of The US$/$A Exchange Rate

Hogan, Lindsay I.; Urban, Peter J.; Anh, V. V. - In: Australian Journal of Management 10 (1985) 2, pp. 47-65

A forecasting model of the US$/$A exchange rate is derived through the application of vector autoregression (VAR …

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Prenatal smoking and genetic risk: Examining the childhood origins of externalizing behavioral problems

Petkovsek, Melissa A.; Boutwell, Brian B.; Beaver, Kevin M. - In: Social Science & Medicine 111 (2014) C, pp. 17-24

An ever-growing body of research has begun to focus closely on the role of prenatal smoke exposure in the development of conduct problems in children. To this point, there appears to be a correlation between prenatal nicotine exposure and behavioral problems. We build on this prior research by...

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Collected customs duties: the level of taxation on imports applied by the US and the EU

Gallezot, Jacques; Aussilloux, Vincent - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2008

.5% est équivalent pour l'UE et les USA en 2003. Néanmoins, il apparaît que les USA taxent plus les PMA et les pays en … développement que l'UE. Ainsi, en écartant les produits qui entrent en franchise de droits, la taxation appliquée par les USA est de …'importation du marché des USA, alors que ce sont plutôt les produits alimentaires et agricoles Ã l'importation du marché de l …

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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...

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Compression of morbidity and the labor supply of older people

Romeu Gordo, Laura - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"This paper tests whether there is evidence of compression of morbidity using data from the American Health and Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less from functional problems than older cohorts at given ages....

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The acceptability of layoffs and pay cuts : comparing North America with Germany

Gerlach, Knut; Levine, David; Stephan, Gesine; Struck, Olaf - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"Substantial evidence shows that North Americans are generally more accepting of the market than Europeans and attribute market outcomes to a larger degree to effort or skill. This article discusses the perceived fairness of layoffs and pay cuts in North America and Germany. We expect North...

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The time trend in the matching function

Poeschel, Friedrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

"We revisit the puzzling finding that labour market performance appears to deteriorate, as suggested by negative time trends in empirical matching functions. We investigate whether these trends simply arise from omitted variable bias. Concretely, we consider the omission of job seekers beyond...

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Immigrant status and cognitive functioning in late-life: An examination of gender variations in the healthy immigrant effect

Hill, Terrence D.; Angel, Jacqueline L.; Balistreri, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2076-2084

to assess variations in cognitive functioning trajectories by nativity status and age at migration to the U.S.A. among …

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