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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
Pesaran, Hashem; Xu, TengTeng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325438
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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822124
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Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
firms to cut investment, employment, and borrowing. We conclude that financial market fluctuations affect even private firms …
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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884334
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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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Framing Effects in an Employee Savings Scheme: A Non-Parametric Analysis
Kooreman, Peter; Melenberg, Bertrand; Prast, Henriëtte M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Studies have found evidence that seemingly irrelevant details of an income component such as its label have an effect on how it is used. Using a data set with more than one million employee-month observations, we investigate the role of functional form assumptions and time aggregation in the...
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Shifting Perspectives in Pensions
Góra, Marek; Palmer, Edward - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper addresses the questions of what is an economically efficient pension system, what are the externalities and what are the risks of the four alternative pension systems: financial defined contribution (FDC), notional or non-financial defined contribution (NDC), financial defined benefit...
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Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior
Card, David E.; Ransom, Michael R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savings decisions of college professors. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded by a combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee contribution. Employees can also make tax-deferred...
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