This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the …, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …

education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education … externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work, which are stronger in countries with the … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …

redistribution. Subsidization of education increases employment and growth. Redistribution through the tax and benefit system or … productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning … opportunities differ across workers determine simultaneously the long-run level of employment and the long-run rate of growth. We …

respective major crisis triggers (Lehman’s collapse in the US and the 2009 admission by Papandreou, that Greece’s deficit was … those widely observed crisis triggers is similar in the EA and in the US, the behavior of their reserves is quite different …

financial crisis of 2007-09, they raised substantial amounts of new capital, both from private investors and through government …

crisis since mid-2007. We also find that there is some tendency of the yield movements to be larger when the demand for the …

relationship banks gather information on their borrowers, which allows them to provide loans for profitable firms during a crisis … firms in a crisis. Using detailed credit register information for Italian banks before and after the Lehman Brothers …' default, we are able to study how relationship and transaction-banks responded to the crisis and we test existing theories of …