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greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …
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greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …
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"Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy are in much worse health than those at the top. This...
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We find disease incidence and prevalence are both higher among Americans in age groups 55-64 and 70-80 indicating that Americans suffer from higher past cumulative disease risk and experience higher immediate risk of new disease onset compared to the English. In contrast, age specific mortality...
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"This paper compares the recent global crisis and recession to earlier international financial crises and recessions. Based on existing chronologies of banking, currency and debt crises we identify clusters of crises. We use an identification of extreme events and a weighting scheme based on...
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slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in employment per capita, leaving little difference in growth of output per capita … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment … between productivity and employment growth, and we show that there is a robust negative correlation between productivity and …
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