-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

quantitative importance of fiscal foresight. We investigate whether JCTCs affect employment growth before, at, and after the time … difference-in-difference regression framework applied to monthly panel data on employment, the JCTC effective and legislative …

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is …

effect of reducing employment in small firms as well as what these firms offer their workers. Thus, if there are only small …

symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce … their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme that only rewards employment expansion. This changes the incidence … their workforce when trade unions raise wages. This tames the unions, which causes wage moderation and raises aggregate …

employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor …

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive impacts … on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary …

By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of …