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Frohm, Erik - 2021

Tight labour markets are usually accompanied by mounting wage pressures. Yet, in the past decade, wage growth has remained subdued despite the appearance of widespread labour shortages. This paper re-examines labour market conditions since 2007 through the lens of a novel indicator, relative...

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Foreign direct investment and international business cycle comovement

Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C.J. - 2004

This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we...

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Financing constraints, employment, and labor compensation: evidence from the subprime mortgage crisis

Popov, Alexander; Rocholl, Jörg - 2015

This paper identifies the effect of financing constraints on firms’ labor demand. We exploit exogenous funding shocks to German savings banks during the US mortgage crisis that are unrelated to local conditions. We find that firms with credit relationships with affected banks experienced a...

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Financing Constraints, Employment, and Labor Compensation : Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Popov, Alexander - 2015

This paper identifies the effect of financing constraints on firms' labor demand. We exploit exogenous funding shocks to German savings banks during the US mortgage crisis that are unrelated to local conditions. We find that firms with credit relationships with affected banks experienced a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019626

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The immigrant/native wealth gap in Germany, Italy and Luxembourg

Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Sierminska, Eva - 2011

. Towards the upper tail of the wealth distribution the gap narrows to a small extent. This gap persists even after controlling …

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Homeownership and portfolio choice over the generations

Paz Pardo, Gonzalo - 2021

Earnings are riskier and more unequal for households born in the 1960s and 1980s than for those born in the 1940s. Despite the improvements in financial conditions, younger generations are less likely to be living in their own homes than older generations at the same age. By using a life-cycle...

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Inter-industry wage differentials: how much does rent sharing matter?

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2009

, workers earn significantly higher wages when employed in more profitable firms. The time dimension of our matched employer …-employee data allows us to instrument firms' profitability by its lagged value. The instrumented elasticity between wages and …

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Homeownership and Portfolio Choice Over the Generations

Paz Pardo, Gonzalo - 2021

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Inter-industry Wage Differentials : How Much Does Rent Sharing Matter?

Du Caju, Philip - 2009

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Immigrants and the distribution of income and wealth in the euro area: First facts and implications for monetary policy

Dossche, Maarten; Kolndrekaj, Aleksandra; Propst, Maximilian - 2022

We use household surveys to describe differences in wages, income, wealth and liquid assets of households born in their … are more substantial than the differences in wages and incomes: immigrants earn on average about 30% lower wages than … immigrants-around 30%-can be explained by differences in demographics (age, gender, marital status, education, occupation, sector …

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