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Fancy a Stay at the "Hotel California"? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs
Goerg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...
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Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries
Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on … the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher … host corruption will be associated with higher foreign ownership. However, costs may exceed or exactly compensate the …
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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....
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The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Exploiting census-type panel data on over 7,000 manufacturing enterprises, we find that the...
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Tax Compliance and Information Provision: A Field Experiment with Small Firms
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Schmitz, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study a field experiment on tax compliance in Slovenia. Small accounting companies were randomly assigned to an untreated control group and two treatment groups. Companies in the first treatment group received a letter that highlighted the importance of paying taxes and informed about the...
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Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development
Behaghel, Luc; Lorenceau, Adrien; Quantin, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on total employment or the number of businesses, and...
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Does Experience Rating Reduce Disability Inflow?
Kyyrä, Tomi; Tuomala, Juha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study explores whether the experience rating of employers' disability insurance premiums affects the inflow of older employees to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we exploit a pension reform that extended the coverage of the...
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Privatization Discontent and Its Determinants: Evidence from Latin America
Checchi, Daniele; Florio, Massimo; Carrera, Jorge - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this discontent. We use the results of Latinobarometro (2002), a survey of a representative sample of 18522 individuals in 17 countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a...
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Employment Effects of Payroll Taxes - An Empirical Test for Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Bauer, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998
This study tests to what degree the incidence of payroll taxes in Germany is on employment and whether in consequence payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using industry level data for 18 years (1977-1994) we...
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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey
Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals for the covered provinces. Our findings suggest...
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