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The Great Recession and Children's Mental Health in Australia

Bubonya, Melisa - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of 'shocks' to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the Great Recession, on children's mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case study as despite little change in actual unemployment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908877

Time-Varying Individual Risk Attitudes Over the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2015

We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015022

Disease Environment and Civil Conflicts

Cervellati, Matteo - 2011

This paper tests the hypothesis that a high and persistent exposure to infectious diseases increases the likelihood of civil conflicts. Diseases that are difficult to prevent and treat may reduce the opportunity costs of violent activities, both directly and indirectly. The analysis exploits new...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127319

Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality : Evidence from Asia

Kar, Saibal - 2013

harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where … corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia … economies in South Asia, the income inequality tends to fall …

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Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports

Defever, Fabrice - 2013

We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980‐1997 on sectoral export performance across 91 countries. The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship‐specific inputs, and lowered exports...

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Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession : Evidence from Micro Data

Verdugo, Gregory - 2015

We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great Recession. Average real wages are found to be acyclical, but this reflects, in large part, the effect of changes in the composition of the labour force related to unemployment...

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Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors

Nizalova, Olena Y. - 2017

With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this paper aims to address. We turn to Ukraine's experience...

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The Recent Evolution of the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Daly, Mary C. - 2011

The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of unemployment relative to historical norms reflects the fact that the shocks that hit the economy were...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122681

Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth

Alvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2021

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...

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The Weight of the Crisis : Evidence from Newborns in Argentina

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great Depression. In this article we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious but...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136302

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