Essays about: "fiscal policy and employment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words fiscal policy and employment.

1. 1. Expansionary Fiscal Policy and the Gender Employment Gap: Evidence from the Republic of Korea

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Ida Lindström; [2022]
   Keywords : Expansionary Fiscal Policy; Gender Employment Gap; Structural VAR; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The employment effects of expansionary fiscal policy have been well documented in the literature. Interestingly, however, limited attention has been paid to the gender dimension. Across countries, significant gaps in female and male employment still remain. READ MORE

3. 2. The Effect of Left-Wing Party Control on Economic Outcomes

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : David Sandberg; [2020]
   Keywords : economic outcomes; fiscal policies; local governments; regression discontinuity design; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : A common belief is that left-wing parties tend to use their influence to expand the public sector by increasing taxes – but is this belief supported by data? This study aims to find the causal effect of having left-wing majority and left-wing rule on a set of economic and policy outcomes by using panel data of Swedish local governments between 1995 and 2018. A regression discontinuity design is applied to exploit the discontinuous party control change at 50 percent of the vote share making left-wing majority as good as randomly assigned to observations close to the threshold. READ MORE

4. 3. Sending an Active Message

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Erik Haking; [2017]
   Keywords : Benefit Sanctions; Street-Level Bureaucracy; Discretion; Unemployment; Activity Support; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses how social policy in the form of benefit sanctions targeted at the long-term unemployed is made by case workers within the Swedish Public Employment Agency (Arbetsförmedlingen). Since the 1990s, rising unemployment and fiscal pressures on the welfare states made countries more oriented towards policies of “activation”. READ MORE

5. 4. Investment and Development Impact of Microfinance Institutions : A case study of Ghana

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

   Author : Yaw Francis Eduonu Duah; Eleanor Neequaye; Emmanuel Annan Kissedu; [2012]
   Keywords : Microfinance; Micro Finance Institutions; Micro and Small-Scale Enterprise; Investment; Development; Poverty. ;

   Abstract : This study with its two-fold objectives undertakes a descriptive analysis of how Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) have evolved into its multi-tiered state in Ghana and how their development has impacted other stakeholders in Ghana’s economy especially Micro and Small-Scale Enterprises (MSEs). Additionally, this study undertakes an empirical and exploratory case study to investigate how MFIs in Ghana are influencing access to finance by MSEs. READ MORE

6. 5. The Pain in Spain - a note on alternatives to the fiscal austerity policy adopted by Spain

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Jian Kang; [2012]
   Keywords : Spain; Debt; Austerity; Growth; Fiscal multipliers;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to provide an evaluation of the current austerity solution and alternative solutions to Spain's combination of debt and recession woes. The evaluation will hopefully contribute to the ever so heated "growth versus austerity" debate. READ MORE