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Labor market effects of a minimum wage : evidence from Ecuadorian monthly administrative data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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Market structure, technological gap and vertical linkage effects from foreign direct investment
Kadochnikov, Sergey M. (contributor);  … - 2008
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The direct and indirect effect of services offshoring on local labour market outcomes
Magli, Martina - 2020
The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive...
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Highway to economic growth? : competition in public works tenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Galletta, Sergio; Jametti, Mario; Redonda, Agustin - 2012
an essential part to bring the country on the path of economic growth, and competition within the sector is crucial to … achieve this goal. In this paper we analyze the effect of competition in public works tenders in the DRC. Using a unique and … performance of the sector. -- construction ; competition ; tenders ; public works …
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Why to invest in your neighbor? : social contract on educational investment
Poutvaara, Panu; Kanniainen, Vesa - 1999
labor supllied by the low-ability individuals. However, tax competition and the free mobility of the educated give rise to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781697
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Growth and the geography of knowledge
Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018
We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...
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Knowledge transfers from multinational to domestic firms : evidence from worker mobility : a replication-robustness study of poole (2013)
Haller, Stefanie; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Balsvik, Ragnhild - 2023
This paper replicates Poole (2013) using comprehensive Norwegian and Irish register data. Our results largely confirm the evidence documented in Poole for Brazil which suggests that when workers leave multinationals and are rehired at domestic establishments, the wages of their new coworkers who...
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …
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On the roles of different foreign currencies in European bank lending
Krogstrup, Signe; Tille, Cédric - 2015
We draw on a new data set on the use of Swiss francs and other currencies by European banks to assess the patterns of foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used predominantly for lending to residents, especially...
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How far away is an intangible? : services FDI and distance
Davies, Ronald B.; Guillin, Amélie - 2011
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs. This paper investigates spatial interactions for...
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