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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
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This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …
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competitiveness of the Portuguese economy. It is general knowledge that the promotion of international competitiveness can be promoted … lead to negative effects on international competitiveness of Portugal albeit very small. According to several authors …
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models to represent knowledge about a specific process, model uncertainty occurs. We argue that inference on the basis of a …
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Scheme (EU ETS) and a 10% reduction in emissions from the non-ETS sectors, taking 2005 as the base year. Portugal, as an EU …-specific emissions targets by 2020. In particular, Portugal may increase GHG emissions from the non-ETS sectors by 1% compared to 2005 … the EU ETS target applies to Portugal, i.e. Portugal should reduce emissions from the ETS sectors to 21% below 2005 levels …
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This paper presents an analysis of the findings of a survey on a sample of Portuguese firms. The main aim is to identify some relevant characteristics about the dynamics of prices and wages in PortugalSurvey data; Probit modelsThe most important conclusions are: i) changes to wages are more...
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Two theses are presented and discussed throughout the paper. First, the limits on public deficits with the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) do not correspond to the imposition of restrictive fiscal policies, but instead to the abandonment of an ultimate goal of economic policy: full employment....
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the EU Climate and Energy Package. In this paper we intend to assess the role of renewable energy sources in Portugal … policies. In our policy simulations, we make use of the Hybrid Bottom-up General Equilibrium Model (HyBGEM) for Portugal – a …
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foreign stock market impacts of sovereign credit rating downgrades by Standard and Poor’s in Europe – focusing on Portugal …
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