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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011

inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …

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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - 2009

. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …

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Structural Volatility in Chile: A Policy Report

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

This paper identifies Chile`s economic weaknesses and offers policy recommendations for increasing stability. Current problems include weak international financial links, a Central Bank mandate that is ill-designed to deal with terms of trade shocks, a propensity to waste scarce liquidity in the...

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Structural Volatility in Mexico: A Policy Report

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

This paper surveys Mexico`s economic weaknesses and provides related policy recommendations. Current problems include weak international financial links and external conditions, a recurrent credit crunch and financial underdevelopment problem, with particularly fragile banks, a weak fiscal...

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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth?

Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2010

services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing …

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Welfare reforms and cild well-being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - 2008

welfare reforms are primarily spending more money on items related to employment but not items for children. Finally, a common …

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Population Ageing, Government Budgets, and Productivity Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium

Gonzales-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2007

We analyze the effect of changes in fertility and longevity on taxes, the composition of government spending, and productivity. To that purpose, we introduce politics in an OLG economy with endogenous growth due to human and physical capital accumulation. Population ageing shifts political power...

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Momentum trading, return chasing, and predictable crashes

Chabot, Benjamin; Ghysels, Eric; Jagannathan, Ravi - 2014

We combine self-collected historical data from 1867 to 1907 with CRSP data from 1926 to 2012, to examine the risk and return over the past 140 years of one of the most popular mechanical trading strategies - momentum. We find that momentum has earned abnormally high risk-adjusted returns - a...

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Income Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from the American Data

Panizza, Ugo - 1999

Cross-country studies have found a negative relationship between income inequality and economic growth. The main problem with the cross-country analyses is the poor quality of the data on income distribution. This paper tests the robustness of the cross-country results to the use of a more...

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