relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide … their cost- effectiveness as well as to provide examples which may provide lessons to learn for transition and developing …

compare the effects of subsidizing permanent job creation with that of reducing the severance cost gap between permanent and … tenure distribution. The steady-state results show that, from a fiscal point of view, reducing the severance cost gap between … firms that do not comply with the obligations that subsidies involve. Finally, the sensitivity analysis reveals the …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …