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Effects of Innovation on Employment : A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - 2021
panel GMM system estimation we find positive effects of innovation on employment. This result is robust to the use of …
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The Rise (and Fall) of Tech Clusters
Kichko, Sergey - 2020
Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities...
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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China
Heblich, Stephan - 2019
This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the long-run...
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Competition, Land Prices, and City Size
Kichko, Sergey - 2019
Larger cities typically give rise to two opposite effects: tougher competition among firms and higher production costs. Using an urban model with substitutability of production factors and pro-competitive effects, I study the response of the market outcome to city size, land-use regulations, and...
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The Direct and Indirect Effect of Services Offshoring on Local Labour Market Outcomes
Magli, Martina - 2020
The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828788
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Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs
Lake, James; Liu, Ding - 2022
President Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local labor market’s reliance on steel as an input and as...
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Going NUTS: the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; von Ehrlich, Maximilian; … - 2008
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
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On the Road (Again) : Commuting and Local Employment Elasticities in Germany
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2021
address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across … local labor markets is pervasive, unique data are available, and because Germany’s high degree of trade openness poses a …/housing shares in Germany turns out to be inessential for our findings, the level of the land/housing share plays an important role …
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Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage : Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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Taxing the Gender Gap : Labor Market Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut for Women in Italy
Rubolino, Enrico - 2022
This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...
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