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Employment dynamics and business relocation : new evidence from the national establishment time series
Neumark, David (contributor); Zhang, Junfu (contributor);  … - 2005
We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source the National Establishment Time Series (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business establishment relocations that can contribute to job...
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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018
We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...
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Multipliers from a major public sector relocation$sdthe BBC moves to Salford
Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G.; Riom, Capucine; … - 2024
This paper considers the impact of a major public sector relocation: the British Broadcasting Corporation's partial move from London to Salford, Greater Manchester starting in 2011. We identify effects of the move using synthetic control methods applied to plant-level data at Local Authority and...
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The German-Czech border region after the fall of the Iron Curtain: Effects on the labour market. An empirical study using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS)
Moritz, Michael; Gröger, Margit - 2007
Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...
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The impact of public employment : evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
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Effectiveness of further vocational training in Germany: Empirical findings for persons receiving means-tested unemployment benefit
Bernhard, Sarah; Kruppe, Thomas - 2012
die Effektivität geförderter beruflicher Weiterbildung für Empfänger von Arbeitslosengeld II in Deutschland. Die …
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The rise of the East and the far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen des beispiellosen Anstiegs des internationalen Handels zwischen Deutschland und dem … Osten - China und Osteuropa - im Zeitraum 1988-2008 auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland. Anhand von administrativen … Gesamteffekt von etwa 493.000 zusätzlichen Jobs, welcher dazu beigetragen haben könnte, den Industriesektor in Deutschland zu …
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The effects of job creation schemes on the unemployment duration in East Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Zeiss, Christopher - 2006
Job creation schemes have been one of the most important programmes of active labour market policy in Germany throughout the 1990s and into the first decade of the new century. A number of studies have analysed the effects of job creation schemes in Germany, presenting an overall disappointing...
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Verdrängen Ein-Euro-Jobs sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung in den Betrieben?
Hohendanner, Christian - 2007
Using a fixed-effects panel-estimation of the years 2004 and 2005 of the IAB Establishment Panel, this article tries to answer the following question: Do the so-called One-Euro-Jobs have an effect on the growth rate of regular employment, covered by the social security system? The analysis finds...
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Are training programs more effective when unemployment is high?
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2007
We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we...
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