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Mutascu, Mihai; Danuletiu, Dan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The paper investigates the relationship between tax revenues and literacy level, using a panel-model approach. The dataset covers the period 1996 to 2010 and includes 123 countries. The estimations suggest that the assumed function is nonlinear, with inverted-U and U-shaped curves. More...

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Active Labor Market Programs - Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper provides a new perspective in classifying ALMPs depending on their main objective, also in light of their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide incentives for retaining employment, incentives for...

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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation: Which policy is more effective to reduce duality?

Osuna, Victoria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

firms that do not comply with the obligations that subsidies involve. Finally, the sensitivity analysis reveals the … workers for the effectiveness of policies involving subsidies for permanent job creation. …

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The effect of grant receipt on start-up size: Evidence from plant level data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

In this paper we use plant level data on the start-up size of new plant entries and detailed information on the grants received by such plants in order to investigate whether grant receipt encourages plants to start-up with more employment than without support. The data relate to manufacturing...

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Finanzhilfen des Bundes - Eine Bestandsaufnahme

Boss, Alfred; Rosenschon, Astrid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Subsidies granted by the German federal government decreased in the 1998–2004 period. Since 2005, subsidies have … increased. The transfers to the compulsory health insurance system were raised by very large amounts. Moreover, the subsidies … for re-integrating the unemployed were raised. The results are based on a comprehensive definition of subsidies; tax …

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Subsidies and Exports in Germany. First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

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Creating backward linkages from multinationals: Is there a role for financial incentives?

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We investigate whether government subsidies to local input manufacturers encourage procurement from foreign firms. We …

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Germany's Fiscal Policy Stance

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

This paper analyzes Germany’s fiscal policy position. Half of GDP passes through the hands of government, a high debt to GDP ratio limits the maneuvering, and the revenue sharing mechanism prevents a competitive federalism. Most importantly for the future, the federal finance minister has to...

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Can production subsidies explain China's export performance? Evidence from firm level data

Yu, Zhihong; Gong, Yundan; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

government can reshape industry structure through production subsidies to enhance export performance has not been answered. This … paper analyses the impact of production subsidies on firms’ export performance using a very comprehensive and recent firm … level database and controlling for the endogeneity of subsidies. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies …

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Grant support and exporting activity

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

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...

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