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Flexible Wages Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

, however, that HPWOs affect their employment structure. …

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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

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Land and Power

Baland, Jean-Marie; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

focus on the control of the voting of agricultural workers by landlords and show that if the employment relationship is …

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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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Israel: The Start-Up Nation, and its Threat from Within

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Three main vantage points are brought together in this paper: (1) Israel’s relatively good economic performance in recent years – at least, in comparison with other Western countries that have still not emerged from the recession; (2) motivations for the wave of social protests that erupted...

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Real Effects of Stock Underpricing

Hau, Harald; Lai, Sandy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper provides evidence for a causal effect of equity prices on corporate investment and employment. We use fire … whose stocks are most underpriced have considerably lower investment and employment than industry peers not subject to any …

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The causal effects of an industrial policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

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Place-Based Policies

Neumark, David; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...

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An Incentive Theory of Matching

Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...

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