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Labor Market Policies and European Crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073087
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Fiscal and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2010
productivity) engage in fiscal competition. Using numerical simulations we examine how the migration and tax policies are shaped … productivity gap, we also analyze the implications of the productivity gap for the design of migration and tax policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142237
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Catching-Up and Inflation in Europe : Balassa-Samuelson, Engel's Law and Other Culprits
Égert, Balázs - 2013
This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special focus on the new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using an array of estimation methods, we show that the Balassa-Samuelson effect is not an important driver of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094566
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: A Panel Data Analysis
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster, Neil - CESifo - 2002
Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406083
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Does Venture Capital Investment Spur Employment Growth?
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster, Neil - CESifo - 2003
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406087
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Institutions and Structural Unemployment: Do Capital-Market Imperfections Matter?
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer - CESifo - 2001
This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406272
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Capital Market Institutions and Venture Capital: Do They Affect Unemployment and Labour Demand?
Fehn, Rainer; Fuchs, Thomas - CESifo - 2003
This paper analyses the influence of the capital market on the labour market. Especially the impact of start-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406335
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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?
Viollaz, Mariana - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing … productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from temporary administrative workers and non-remunerated workers and expands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926543
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Sources of the German Productivity Demise - Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment
Eicher, Theo S. - 2007
While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined … dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth … deeply lacking in the mid 1990's as compared to the US. The transition to the new economy mitigated the German productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777731
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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet
Bulman, George - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011649