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Structural Reforms and Growth: Product and Labor Market Deregulations

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Rossi, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...

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Service Offshoring, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from the US

Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11% of productivity growth during this period …. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller accounting for approximately …

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Land and Power

Baland, Jean-Marie; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We study the implications of electoral corruption for resource allocation, factor market equilibrium and inequality. We focus on the control of the voting of agricultural workers by landlords and show that if the employment relationship is subject to moral hazard then the resulting rents...

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Israel: The Start-Up Nation, and its Threat from Within

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Three main vantage points are brought together in this paper: (1) Israel’s relatively good economic performance in recent years – at least, in comparison with other Western countries that have still not emerged from the recession; (2) motivations for the wave of social protests that erupted...

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The causal effects of an industrial policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

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Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labour, Firm Size and Firm Performance

Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

labour productivity. We control for different regional and firm characteristics, and we instrument enforcement with the … it is likely to contribute to an improvement in productivity. …

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