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Meritocracy across countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Euroskepticism in the crisis : more mood than economy
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252653
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Labor market frictions and the international propagation mechanism
Patureau, Lise - In: Journal of macroeconomics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 199-222
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On the functioning of markets with frictions
Sniekers, Florian Jos Ton - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625645
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Simultaneous Multilateral Search
Glebkin, Sergei - 2019
This paper studies simultaneous multilateral search (SMS) in over-the-counter (OTC) markets: when searching, an investor contacts several potential counterparties and then trades with the one offering the best quote. Search intensity (how frequently one can search) and search capacity (how many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870350
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528414
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The societal costs of inflation and unemployment
Popova, Olga; See, Sarah Grace; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2023
What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million …, we find that both inflation and unemployment have a negative link with confidence in financial institutions. While … inflation is generally unassociated with confidence in government and leadership approval, unemployment still has a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432023
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The societal costs of inflation and unemployment
Popova, Olga; See, Sarah Grace; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2023
What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million …, we find that both inflation and unemployment have a negative link with confidence in financial institutions. While … inflation is generally unassociated with confidence in government and leadership approval, unemployment still has a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419497
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Misperceiving inequality
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel - 2015
Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281602
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Globalization and income inequality : the role of transmission mechanisms
Hennighausen, Tanja - 2014
mitigated by a reduction in unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354569