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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …
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We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
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Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...
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This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ‘new economic geography’ model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is “bubbleshaped”,...
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We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …
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We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …
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and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …
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Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
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.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …
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