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Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment
Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Tavoni, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational … moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy … stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing …
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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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Why and Where do Headquarters Move?
Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa; Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper analyses decisions regarding the location of headquarters in the US for the period 1996-2001. Using a unique firm-level database of about 30,000 US headquarters, we study the firm- and location-specific characteristics of headquarters that relocated over that period. Headquarters are...
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From Sectoral to Functional Urban Specialization
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We document and then develop a model explaining and relating changes in firms’ organization and in urban structure. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces costs, while congestion increases with city size. A...
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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers
Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of laid-off workers. This program, called “Conventions de conversion”, was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...
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Evaluating An Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training programme, which is highly innovative in its content and financing - and could therefore serve as a role model for other programmes. In the late 1980s privatization and downsizing of nationalized steel firms have led to large-scale redundancies....
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Macroeconomic Policy in Central Europe
Braga de Macedo, Jorge; Branson, William H - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
Our focus in this paper is macroeconomic policy in the countries of Central Europe: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. All four are committed to joining the European Union. Accordingly, their macroeconomic policies need to put them on a credible path towards meeting the entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136687
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Active Labour Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization or Benefit Churning?
Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper provides micro-econometric evidence on the effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMP) in Poland. We sketch the theoretical framework of matching estimators as a substitute for randomization in labor market programs. Using retrospective data from the 18th wave of the Polish...
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Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of split-second decisions that might allow implicit racial biases to manifest themselves. Moreover, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114190
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Advantage Through Training? A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Active Labour Market Programmes in Poland
Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
appropriate evaluation methodology when working with non-experimental data, we use two widely applied approaches to identify …
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