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Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Control
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2014
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …
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The Impact of China's "Stadium Diplomacy" on Local Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Valentin, Lindlacher; Pirich, Gustav - 2024
This study investigates the economic impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Exploiting the staggered timing of the construction in a difference-in-differences framework, we analyze the effect of Chinese-built and financed stadiums on local economic development. Employing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534428
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EU Cohesion Policy on the Ground: Analyzing Small-Scale Effects Using Satellite Data
Bachtrögler-Unger, Julia; Dolls, Mathias; Krolage, Carla; … - 2022
We present a novel approach for analyzing the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470315
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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes
Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2021
What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211730
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The Impact of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster on Local Economic Activity : Evidence from the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...
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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323010
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Self-Regulation Training, Labor Market Reintegration of Unemployed Individuals, and Locus of Control - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Berger, Eva M.; Koenig, Guenther; Mueller, Henning; … - 2016
Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation plays an important role for labor market success. We conducted a randomized natural field experiment embedded in an existing labor market reactivation program to examine the effect of a self-regulation training on long-term unemployed individuals....
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Screening through Activation: Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme
Caroline, Kotakorpi, Kaisa Hall; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017
We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-finding rates among individuals with good labour market prospects, already prior to programme participation. Second, actual program participation may help individuals with poor...
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Education, unemployment and migration
Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker - 2007
This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264226
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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - 2008
challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264480