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R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …

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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services

Antonello D’Agostino; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU- 15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of servicerelated jobs in total...

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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso

Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …

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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?

Gerdes, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has … indicate that the performance indicator strengthened the positive link between "quality" of services and the number of new …

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Does Secondary School Tracking Affect Performance? Evidence from IALS

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school performance, as measured by standardized test...

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On-The-Job Search and Sorting

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best....

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Should We Extend the Role of Private Social Expenditure?

Pearson, Mark; Martin, John P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

, there is some reason hope that private provision might promote microeconomic efficiency and services which are more … choice and innovation. Second, however, efficiency gains have often been limited. This is due to a number of inter …-related reasons: (a) Individualisation of packages services is expensive. (b) In order to ensure adequate coverage of the population …

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An Analysis of Hospital Efficiency and Productivity Growth Using the Luenberger Productivity Indicator

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Menezes, António Gomes de; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …

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