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Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms

Gomes, Pedro Maia; Kuehn, Zoë - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the availability of skilled workers: i) the education level of the workforce and ii) large public sectors...

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Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences

Caponi, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper contributes to the existing literature on public employment showing that the wage setting policy of the public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically homogeneous wages across regions with different private...

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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence

Kessing, Sebastian G.; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The...

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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...

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Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals

Clark, Andrew E.; Milcent, Carine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP...

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Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?

Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists’ minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants …

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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Wang, Qingwei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … the differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder …

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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …

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Why More West than East German Firms Export

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

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