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Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2017

This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a key feature of this macroeconomic phenomenon: it behaves like a disease. A detailed assessment of the transmission mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of...

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Has the time for a European job guarantee policy arrived?

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2023

As country after country in the European Union is called to respond to the current challenge of our time - high inflation and declining real wages - governments must engage in a transformative agenda and go beyond emergency energy vouchers and income support cashtransfers. And if the goal is to...

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The job guarantee: Design, jobs, and implementation

Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2018

The job guarantee (JG) is a public option for jobs. It is a permanent, federally funded, and locally administered program that supplies voluntary employment opportunities on demand for all who are ready and willing to work at a living wage. While it is first and foremost a jobs program, it has...

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The effect of superstition on health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost month

Halla, Martin; Liu, Chia-Lun; Liu, Jin-tan - 2019

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … is a quantum effect, the latter two effects reflect changes in the timing of events. Efficient public health policy …

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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011

In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals … suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …

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Keynes after 75 years: Rethinking money as a public monopoly

Wray, L. Randall - 2011

In this paper I first provide an overview of alternative approaches to money, contrasting the orthodox approach, in which money is neutral, at least in the long run; and the Marx-Veblen-Keynes approach, or the monetary theory of production. I then focus in more detail on two main categories: the...

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Reorienting fiscal policy after the great recession

Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012

The paper evaluates the fiscal policy initiatives during the Great Recession in the United States. It argues that, although the nonconventional fiscal policies targeted at the financial sector dwarfed the conventional countercyclical stabilization efforts directed toward the real sector, the...

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The financial situation of people with severe mental illness in an advanced welfare state

Eliason, Marcus - 2022

provide a detailed picture of the economic situation of people with SMI in Sweden during a period of ±10 years around first …

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Adolescent predictors of unemployment and disability pension across the life course: A longitudinal study of selection in 49 321 Swedish men

Hemmingsson, Tomas; Lundin, Andreas - 2013

include cognitive ability, mental health, and labour-market related behaviour across the life course. However, people who …

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Immigration and public spending

Böheim, René; Mayr, Karin - 2005

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily...

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