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Fancy a stay at the "Hotel California"? : foreign direct investment, taxation and firing costs

Görg, Holger - 2002

This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...

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Does it pay firms to register for taxes? : The impact of formality on firm profitability

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can...

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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …

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Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution : a CGE analysis of three EU regions

Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2009

small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …

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Did Latvia's public works program mitigate the impact of the 2008 - 2010 crisis?

Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed I. - 2012

To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …

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Teacher pay, class size and local governments : evidence from the Latvian reform

Hazans, Mihails - 2010

data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of …

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Worker flows and labour market adjustment during the Great Recession : evidence from a large shock

Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2015

This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a …

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Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Bratti, Massimilano; Ghirelli, Corinna; Enkelejda, Havari; … - 2018

Latvia. The programme is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme for the period 2014-2020, the largest action launched by the …

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