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Immigrants and firms' productivity : evidence from France
Mitaritonna, Cristina; Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed...
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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Effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies
Estrin, Saul; Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen; Švejnar, Jan - 2009
"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post … institutional development. In China relatively more estimates suggest that privatization to domestic owners improves the level of …-communist economies, but foreign joint ventures rather than wholly owned foreign firms have a positive effect in China. Worker or …
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Economic policy uncertainty and shadow banking : firm-level evidence from China
Si, Dengkui; Wan, Shen; Li, Xiao-Lin; Kong, Dongmin - In: Research in international business and finance 63 (2022), pp. 1-16
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Foreign trade and China’s yield curve during the COVID-19 pandemic : an analysis based on an extended arbitrage-free Nelson–Siegel model
Hong, Zhiwu; Wang, Zhenhan; Li, Xinda - In: Research in international business and finance 70 (2024) 2, pp. 1-21
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Worker-level and firm-level effects of a wage subsidy program for highly educated labor : evidence from Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kuhn, Johan M. - 2015
We study the effects of a Danish wage subsidy program for highly educated workers on the labor market outcomes of the persons participating in the program and on the performance of the firms that hired these subsidized workers. Using data on the population of program participants, both...
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Place-based policies and agglomeration economies : firm-level evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
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Using experimental evidence to inform firm support programs in developing countries
Grover, Arti; Imbruno, Michele - 2020
Countries design programs for supporting firms, with varying levels of success. Firm growth is constrained by several factors, such as low firm capabilities (e.g. management), availability of finance, and access to markets. Based on the available experimental evidence on firm support programs in...
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Brexit had no measurable effect on Irish exporters
Elsner, Benjamin; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Haller, Stefanie - 2024
We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK and the EU. Using administrative data on the universe of...
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How do governments respond to food price spikes? : lessons from the past
Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - 2010
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