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Interest Rate Bands of Inaction and Play-Hysteresis in Domestic Investment : Evidence for the Euro Area

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank's effectiveness in a low interest rate environment...

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Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times

Balcilar, Mehmet - 2020

This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...

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Gender and Career Progression in Academia : European Evidence

Morettini, Lucio; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023

We study career trajectories of university researchers in Europe, with a particular emphasis on the speed of career … longitudinal database that gathers survey responses from over 10,000 university researchers across Europe - we find that women have …

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Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe

Hansen, Hans - 2016

in five countries in north-western Europe. We also calculate the net replacement rates for families receiving social …; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …

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Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020

This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Using longitudinal data for the period 2003-2016, fixed effect estimates...

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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...

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Examining the Relationships between Labour Market Mismatches, Earnings and Job Satisfaction Among Immigrant Graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus - 2014

This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...

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How Does the Economic Uncertainty Affect Asset Prices Under Normal and Financial Distress Times?

Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2022

By using a nonlinear VAR model, we investigate whether the response of the US stock and housing markets to uncertainty shocks depends on financial conditions. Our model allows us to change the response of the US financial markets to volatility shocks in periods of normal and financial distress....

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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gazeley, Ian - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

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Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States

Bell, David N. F. - 2011

lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other …

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