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The economic contribution of unauthorized workers : an industry analysis
Edwards, Ryan D.; Ortega, Francesc - 2016
heterogeneous workforce in terms of skills and productivity. Capital and labor are the inputs in production and the different types … these gains stems from the productivity increase arising from the expanded labor market opportunities for these workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581646
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The real effects of liquidity during the financial crisis : evidence from automobiles
Benmelech, Efraim; Meisenzahl, Ralf R.; Ramcharan, Rodney - In: The quarterly journal of economics 132 (2017) 1, pp. 317-365
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Fixed exchange-rate policy and real wage growth : quasi-experimental evidence
Andini, Corrado - 2014
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has reduced the real hourly wage growth of Italian fulltime workers with permanent contracts, on...
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Lockdown accounting
Gottlieb, Charles; Grobovsek, Jan; Poschke, Markus; … - 2020
We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector-level data. Employment effects depend on the ability to work from home, which ranges from about half of total employment in rich countries to around 35% in poor countries. This gap...
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Managerial practices and students' performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408867
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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2020
In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214304
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The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality
Helm, Ines; Koch, Nikolas; Rohlf, Alexander - 2023
We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible...
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Immigrants and firms' productivity : evidence from France
Mitaritonna, Cristina; Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337418
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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. -- SMEs ; SME policy ; productivity ; Latin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903965
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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
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