An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do … small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI … manufacture by small and medium establishments. We identify the consequences for employment growth, investment, output …

. Consequently, the goal of our evaluation is to assess the impact of the policy on equity, debt and employment. Using various …

groups. Given wages, the direct employment effect of a reduction in weekly normal hours is negligible for all three groups … groups. Given wages, the direct employment effect of a reduction in weekly normal hours is negligible for all three groups …In this paper we estimate the employment effects of a reduction in weekly normal hours in West German manufacturing on …

, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased … inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …

academic and policy analysis are unknown. This paper measures the effect of negative credit information on the employment and … credit is only one-fourth as large. Negative credit information also causes an increase in self-employment and a decrease in …