economic downturns
Economic downturns and male cesarean deliveries: a time series test of the economic stress hypothesis
... Reports in California, Sweden, and Germany find that the secondary sex ratio (i.e., the odds of a live male birth) falls following declines in employment [15-17]. One explanation for this association includes that eco- ...
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A narrative review on the effect of economic downturns on the nursing labour market: implications for policy and planning
... of economic downturns and recession on the nursing labour market was conducted using PubMed, the Cumu- lative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and the Institute for Scientific ...
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Forecasting turning points in Canada
... perspective by examining the track record of another popular financial market indicator of the business cycle, the spread of the six-month commercial paper rate over the six-month Treasury bill rate. This risk spread ...
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Health expenditures spent for prevention, economic performance, and social welfare
... in economic downturns often reduce government expendi- tures, of which spending on preventive healthcare with no apparent immediate health impact might be cut down first, as there are also sick people in ...
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The impact of Working Capital Management on firm profitability in different economic cycles: Evidence from the United Kingdom
... In terms of inventory conversion period, the results show a negative but statistically insignif- icant relationship between profitability and INV. Only in poor economic states it seems that inventory turnover ...
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Five Keys to Flourishing in Trying Times
... managing economic downturns virtuously, focusing on abundance gaps, creating positive energy in the face of decline, and implementing positive practices even in industries that don’t seem to value them are ...
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Been there done that: the political economy of Déjà Vu
... disband economic theory during downturns, asking “[w]hen does the Keynesian moment end — and the ordinary laws of economics retake the stage?” Rizzo (2010c) also questions the ability of government to ...
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How Business Cycles Affect the Healthcare Sector: A Cross-country Investigation
... during economic recessions ...tough economic times are sensible. When public cost cuts during economic downturns indeed lead to increased efficiency in the sector, they may deflate the ...
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Towards genuine Shariah products with lessons of the financial crisis
... for economic downturns as evidenced by the recent financial crisis, then Eina and Tawarruq, and any similar Islamic banking product, being economically no different from conventional loans in essence and ...
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Permanent Effects of Economic Crises on Household Welfare: Evidence and Projections from Argentina’s Downturns
... The results indicate that, in general, individuals allocate more time to schooling during economic downturns, raising their years of education and reducing the schooling gap. There are some plausible ...
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New Essentials of Economic Theory III Economic Applications
... of economic variables and transactions on economic ...of economic waves is completely different from waves in physical fluids but parallels between them may be useful for their ...of economic ...
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Development Power: The Potential Dynamics in Economic Process
... Abstract: Stating from the intrinsic characteristics of macroeconomic development, this paper puts forward the concept of development power and its theoretical frame. The development power is the potential and invisible ...
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“Economic freedom” and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
... of economic history implies that free market reforms rescued the world’s economies from stagnancy during the 1970s and ...linking economic freedom to growth, and argue that their positive findings hinge on ...
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The Role of Female Education on Economic Development: Cross Sectional Data
... on economic growth females’ education is still a serious problem due to gender based ...in economic, social, cultural and political life increases (Emebt, ...
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On some issues concerning definition of an economic recession
... the economic activity spread across the country lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real gross domestic product (GDP) growth AND/OR real personal income AND/OR employment (non-farm payrolls) AND/OR ...
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Has Economics Lost Its Own Identity?
... characterizing economic activity and outlining of the basic hypotheses; b) formulation of the theory in the form of formalized relations between defined concepts and c) verification of such theories by experience ...
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lecture2
... While growth of income per capita is an essential for economic development, economic growth does not necessarily lead to economic development. Economic development can be seen as economi[r] ...
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Economic Systems and Economic Growth
... There are many differences between a market economy and a planned economy, such as asset ownership and the degree of hardness of budget constraint of firms. In this paper, we focus on one important difference between a ...
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Bulletin of the Economic and Social Committee No. 7, 1994
... ENERGY AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COHESION Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the Economic and[r] ...
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The Economic Impact of AI Technology
... of productivity and economic growth, whether the benefit is shared broadly has not been determined. Rather, considering that most technological innovation nowadays is skill-biased technological change, the benefit ...
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