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Spatial Externalities and Empirical Analysis: The Case of Italy

Mion, Giordano - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market imperfections, and trade costs creates forces that, together with factor endowments,...

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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective

Hogrefe, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A … shown that offshoring shifts home country relative labor demand towards more complex tasks with higher relocation cost. This …

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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions induced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the parameter estimates of the Multinomial Logit and of several Multinomial Probit Models, we show that we have to distinguish between the factors that have an impact on employment...

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The own-wage elasticity of labor demand: A meta-regression analysis

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However …, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper …, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis to re-assess the empirical literature on labor demand elasticities …

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The minimum wage affects them all: Evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

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Exporting and labor demand: Micro-level evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich … extensive margins significantly increases the (absolute value of the) unconditional own-wage labor demand elasticity. This is …

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The ZEW combined microsimulation-CGE model: innovative tool for applied policy analysis

Clauss, Markus; Schubert, Stefanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

, microsimulation models allow for detailed labor supply and distributional effects due to policy measures, as individual household data …

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Employment growth in newly established firms: is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?

Müller, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regard to entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge...

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Does fixed-term contract employment raise firms' adjustment-speed? Evidence from an establishment panel for West-Germany

Hagen, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

Fixed-term labour contracts were liberalised in Germany in order to raise the flexibility of the labour market. However, empirical studies using industry-level data find no significant effect of FTCs on employment adjustment. This paper investigates the impact of FTC employment on firms?...

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IT Capital, Job Content and Educational Attainment

Spitz, Alexandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the ?black box? surrounding the skill?biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...

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