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We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by...
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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Ende Juni 2013 hat die Europäische Kommission Leitlinien für Regionalbeihilfen für den Zeitraum 2014 bis 2020 verabschiedet. Der Autor argumentiert, dass diese Leitlinien stellenweise weder mit der ökonomischen Theorie noch mit verwandten Leitlinien und Mitteilungen der Kommission in...
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This paper presents new evidence on the last concluded wave (2007-2013) of the EU cohesion policy. We depart from the broadly used GDP-growth approach and evaluate the impact of EU Structural Funds (SFs) on a battery of regional well-being indicators including economic, educational, health, and...
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How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility...
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In 2009, Russia introduced a reform that changed the admissions process in all universities. Before 2009, admission decisions were based on institution-specific entry exams; the reform required universities to determine their decisions on the results of a national high-school test known as...
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This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in the UK. We employ a Difference-in-Differences strategy and compare EU migration to non-EU migration before and immediately after the UK referendum of June 2016. We also...
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Das Transatlantische Freihandelsabkommen (TTIP) wurde in Öffentlichkeit und Wissenschaft zum Teil sehr plakativ diskutiert. Die Autoren erweitern die Debatte über die Folgen von TTIP für Wachstum, Beschäftigung sowie die Auswirkungen auf Umwelt- und Verbraucherschutz um die Perspektive der...
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Durch die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise sind einschneidende Veränderungen im ökonomischen Governance-System der EU ausgelöst worden. Die im Zuge der Krise ergriffenen Maßnahmen werden hier kritisch untersucht. Dabei stellt der Autor fest, dass die Veränderungen den Empfehlungen des „Old...
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