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How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide; Disdier, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
countries. In Italy they enhance the efficiency of home activities, with also positive long term effect on output and employment …
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Investments Abroad and Performance at Home: Evidence from Italian Multinationals
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Foreign activities of MNEs have important effects on home economies. The debate is ambiguous: concerns that foreign investments deplete domestic economies are often coupled with the pride for doing good business in foreign countries. This Paper addresses this question by defining the appropriate...
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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Walter, Thomas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...
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Growth and Risk at the Industry Level: the Real Effects of Financial Liberalization
Levchenko, Andrei A.; Rancière, Romain; Thoenig, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
concerns, we employ a number of alternative difference-in-differences estimation strategies. We implement a propensity score …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791902
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Grant Support and Exporting Activity
Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661701
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Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labour Market Reforms
Hernanz, Virginia; Jimeno, Juan F; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to account for most new jobs. In 1997, however, the Spanish government attempted to reduce the incidence of temporary employment by reducing payroll taxes and dismissal costs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124123
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Drawing Lessons From the Boom of Temporary Jobs in Spain
Dolado, Juan J.; Garcia-Serrano, Carlos; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
During the last two decades many EU countries have reformed the set of legal rules that regulate dismissals. In contrast with other institutional reforms of the labour market, there seems to be a common strategy of maintaining strict employment protection legislation for workers under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791382
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016242
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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?
Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321836
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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
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