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Breaks in employment due to childcare in the Czech Republic before and after 1989
Valentova, Marie - In: Work, Employment & Society 26 (2012) 2, pp. 262-277
employment due to childcare and how their perceptions are affected by whether they had their children prior to or after the fall … of the socialist regime. The analysis reveals that women’s perceptions of interruptions in employment due to childcare … exhibit more negative perceptions of how engaging in childcare influenced their careers compared to mothers who interrupted …
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Enfants, interruptions d'activité des femmes et écart de salaire entre les sexes
Meurs, Dominique; Pailhé, Ariane; Ponthieux, Sophie - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 114 (2010) 3, pp. 113-133
The article presents an analysis of the impact of children on wages in terms of the family gap in pay. After a brief presentation of the main empirical results and theoretical explanations that can be found in international literature, it analyzes, for France, the effects children have on...
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Speculative attacks with multiple targets
Fujimoto, Junichi - In: Economic Theory 57 (2014) 1, pp. 89-132
This paper examines a global games model of speculative attacks in which speculators can choose to attack any one of a number of targets. In the canonical global games model of speculative attacks with a single target, it is well known that there exists a unique equilibrium that survives...
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Fiscal policy response to cycles under two regimes: Spain 1950–1998
Battilossi, Stefano; Escario, Regina; Foreman-Peck, James - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 7 (2013) 3, pp. 267-294
In the second half of the 20th century, Spain provides a case of political regime change, which according to some political economy models should also lead to a shift in the cyclical nature of fiscal policy. We find that in most of the pre-democratic era, there was a strong procyclical bias to...
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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle
Puhani, Patrick - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886131
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Towards a More Democratic Regime and Society? The Politics of Faith and Ethnicity in a Transitional Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
Hamayotsu, Kikue - In: Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 32 (2013) 2, pp. 61-88
This paper broadly examines the history of Thailand’s models of development from the fall of the absolute monarchy in 1932 to the present. It asks two questions: First, what have the models been? How do they interact? And how successful have they been? Second, to what extent has partisanship...
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Inflation Expectations and Recovery from the Depression in 1933: Evidence from the Narrative Record
Jalil, Andrew; Rua, Gisela - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015
This paper uses the historical narrative record to determine whether inflation expectations shifted during the second quarter of 1933, precisely as the recovery from the Great Depression took hold. First, by examining the historical news record and the forecasts of contemporary business...
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Empowering activists or autocrats? The Internet in authoritarian regimes
Rød, Espen Geelmuyden; Weidmann, Nils B - In: Journal of Peace Research 52 (2015) 3, pp. 338-351
The reported role of social media in recent popular uprisings against Arab autocrats has fueled the notion of ‘liberation technology’, namely that information and communication technology (ICT) facilitates organization of antigovernment movements in autocracies. Less optimistic...
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Destabilizing effects of a successful stabilization: a forward-looking explanation of the second Hungarian hyperinflation
Paal, Beatrix - In: Economic Theory 15 (2000) 3, pp. 599-630
The extreme severity of the second Hungarian hyperinflation is argued to be related to the unusual way in which the inflation was eventually stabilized. The historical features of this episode are represented in a general equilibrium model, which incorporates a transition from one monetary...
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