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Investment climate and employment growth : the impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms

Aterido, Reyes (contributor); … - 2007

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...

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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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Media slant against foreign owners : downsizing

Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - 2012

-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much …

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Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial activities : empirical evidence from the REM Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2002

that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the …

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A review of renewable energy supply and energy efficiency technologies

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - 2014

Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...

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Measuring richness and poverty : a micro data application to Europe and Germany

Peichl, Andreas (contributor); Schaefer, Thilo (contributor) - 2008

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

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Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik : Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor) - 2006

approach regarding the introduction of additional minimum wages in Germany and more generous in-work benefits combined with an … unchanged level of social assistance. -- in-work benefits ; minimum wages ; subsidized employment ; Germany …

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Productivity and size of the export market : evidence for West and East German plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock : evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

industries and occupations. -- Import shock ; adjustment ; clothing industry ; Germany …

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