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Going NUTS : The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
1 funds, but no employment effects. A simple cost-benefit calculation suggests that Objective 1 transfers are not only …
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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125696
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087281
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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation
Becker, Sascha O. - 2006
A novel linked employer-employee data set documents that expanding multinational enterprises retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. In contrast to prior research, a propensity score estimator allows enterprise performance to vary with foreign direct investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778928
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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O. - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German … empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic geography model in which public sector employment in a city can crowd out … private employment through higher wages and house prices, but also generates potential productivity and amenity spillovers. We …
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Endogenous Product Versus Process Innovation and a Firm's Propensity to Export
Becker, Sascha O. - 2015
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750419
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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration Over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O. - 2015
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030491
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Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2008
that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871. …
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