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Application of Regionally Varying Additionality Degrees in the Practice of EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon - 2010

to the additionality degree, the impact of the rate of long-term unemployment is positive …

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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration

Brakman, Steven - 2011

Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert John - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 32 (2007) 2/3, pp. 529-573

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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 44 (2013) 1, pp. 261-287

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Quantile regression for duration data : a reappraisal of the Pennsylvania reemployment bonus experiments

Koenker, Roger; Bilias, Yannis - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 26 (2001) 1, pp. 199-220

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Game of Zones : The Political Economy of Conservation Areas

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Moeller, Kristoffer; Waights, Sevrin - 2021

Provided there are positive external benefits attached to the historic character of buildings, owners of properties in designated conservation areas benefit from a reduction in uncertainty regarding the future of their area. At the same time, the restrictions put in place to ensure the...

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Regional Origins of Employment Volatility : Evidence from German States

Buch, Claudia M. - 2008

Openness for trade can have positive welfare effects in terms of higher growth. But increased openness may also increase uncertainty through a higher volatility of employment. We use regional data from Germany to test whether openness for trade has an impact on volatility. We find a downward...

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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2021

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions : Evidence from Mobile Phone Data

Büchel, Konstantin - 2017

Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...

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