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This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the … Enlargement had a negative effect on establishment-level employment growth, which is driven by increased worker separations and …
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This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …-owned firms experience higher job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment- creating effects of product … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
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The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...
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, we investigate the employment effects of innovations over the business cycle. Our analysis employs a large data set of …. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment … demand losses from old products by demand gains of new products to a substantial degree. As a result their net employment …
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The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry … dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …
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policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the … self-employed in European countries. No significant relation could be identified between the stringency of employment … protection and aggregate self-employment. However, there are significant, and oppositely signed, impacts on high- and low …
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ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …-sample employment patterns in the region of residence. We instrument robot adoption in each country using the pace of robot adoption in …
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This paper analyses the employment consequences of policies aimed to support biofuels in the European Union. The … thereby increase security of the European energy supply on the other hand. The employment impacts of increasing biofuels … recent Renewable Energy Roadmap. Employment effects are assessed in an input-output framework taking into account bottom …
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markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
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While there is some hope that the ongoing climate change negotiations will soon come up with concrete, time scheduled and binding emission reduction commitments, the question of how to achieve these targets is still unsolved. The objective of this paper is to analyse alternative settings of an...
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