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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric Albert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry … grants appears to be recouped in additional wage streams under reasonable assumptions. …

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Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

empirical analysis. Our results indicate that particularly capital related, but also other types of grants can provide an … grants between foreign multinationals and domestic plants. Specifically, while grants have helped to stimulate employment … contrast, grants have in general been successful in not only helping domestic plants to survive longer, but also to create more …

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Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs

Krupka, Douglas James; Donaldson, Kwame - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The model of compensating differentials in regional labor markets was developed by Roback (1982). The model interprets regional differences in constant quality wages and rents as compensating firms and residents for inter-regional differences in amenities. The model assumes that the costs of...

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Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations

Koethenbuerger, Marko; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that rent taxation benefits current young and future generations, while we show that it also benefits...

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Does the Growth Process Discriminate against Older Workers?

Langot, François; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

destruction effect dominates over the capitalization effect for old workers, whereas the capitalization effect dominates for young …

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The Political Economy of Labor Market Regulation with R&D

Palokangas, Tapio K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper, I study the political rationale for labor market regulation. Oligopolists employ raw labor and human capital (i.e. key workers) for production and R&D. There are many jurisdictions, in each of which a self-interested policy maker can regulate/deregulate the local labor market. I...

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...

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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a...

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Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large unique longitudinal database consisting of 1,809 US and...

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