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Bank loans, start-up subsidies and the survival of the new firms: an econometric analysis at the entrepreneur level

Bruno, CREPON; Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...

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Financial Development, Labor and Market Regulations and Growth

FONSECA, Raquel; GONZALEZ, Natalia UTRERO- - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the importance that market regulation and financial imperfections have on …rm growth. We analyse institutions affecting labor market as Employment Protection Laws (EP) and Product Market Regulation (PM). We show that together with the beneficial effects of …nancial...

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Do labour taxes (and their composition) affect wages in the short and in the long run?

Arpaia, Alfonso; Carone, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2004

Measures aimed at reducing the tax burden on labour have been advocated to alleviate the EU unemployment problem. Most … of the analyses document a relationship between the unemployment rate and the tax burden on labour. Hence, it is not … possible to discern whether the effect on unemployment derives from labour demand, labour supply or through the wage formation …

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Gift Exchange and Reciprocity in Competitive Experimental Markets

Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Riedl, Arno - EconWPA - 2003

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Latvia: Working Too Hard?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime, unsocial working hours, health and safety at work, social...

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Insider Power, Wage Discrimination, and Fairness

Fehr, Ernst; Kirchsteiger, Georg - EconWPA - 2003

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Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - EconWPA - 2003

Do employers and workers underbid prevailing wages if there is unemployment? Do employers take advantage of workers …

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Foreign Direct Investment and International Business Cycle Comovement

Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C.J. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we...

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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries

Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...

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Job Flows, Worker Flows and Churning

Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia; Stevens, David - EconWPA - 1996

We utilize a large establishment-level panel dataset to explore the links between gross job flows and gross worker flows. Our findings have relevance for models of job creation and job destruction, and labour reallocation. We find churning flows (the difference between worker and job flows at...

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