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Firm-worker matching in industrial clusters
Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - 2011
In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee panel data set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent developments in the estimation and analysis of models with...
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Family-centered measures of access to early care and education
Davis, Elizabeth; Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron - 2018
low and high relative ECE access. The average family in Minnesota lives in a location where there are nearly two children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814820
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Place-based policies and agglomeration economies : firm-level evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
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Opinion copulas, homophily and multimodal marginals
Askitas, Nikos - 2017
An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely it is that we will interact and converge. Models using these assumptions are called bounded...
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Survival of spinoffs and other startups : first evidence for the private sector in Germany, 1976 - 2008
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and … find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors … investigated pulled spinoffs (where the parent company continues after they are founded) generally have the lowest exit hazards …
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The economics behind the epidemic : Afghan opium price and prescription opioids in the US
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2019
We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
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Estimating production functions in differentiated-product industries with quantity information and external instruments
Roux, Nicolás de; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2020
This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...
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Wages, rents and heterogeneous moving costs
Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor);  … - 2007
The model of compensating differentials in regional labor markets was developed by Roback (1982). The model interprets regional differences in constant quality wages and rents as compensating firms and residents for inter-regional differences in amenities. The model assumes that the costs of...
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Towards a unifying approach of the 'new economic geography'
Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006
particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact … the origin of their differences. -- new economic geography ; agglomeration ; location pattern ; regional policy …
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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms : a regional investigation
Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2009
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community...
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