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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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employment. Based on unit root and co-integration analysis as well as an error correction three-equation model which are … employment. Considering various scenarios suggests that a fall in the relative price of telecommunications can generate a … cumulated employment increase of 760,000 within seven years in Germany. The institutional setup for regulating …
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This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 … possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the benefit replacement ratio, employment protection and the collective …
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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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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...
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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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