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Post-merger restructuring of the labor force
Gehrke, Britta; Maug, Ernst; Obernberger, Stefan; … - 2021
We study the restructuring of the labor force after mergers and acquisitions. Overall restructuring is large. Net employment of targets declines by more than half within two years after acquisitions relative to a matched sample, and is concentrated in targets that close all establishments. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519948
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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")
Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor);  … - 2006
Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323165
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Research funding and regional economies
Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016
Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517698
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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates
Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006
; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359294
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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
in U.S. refugee admissions starting in 2017 costs the overall U.S. economy today over $9.1 billion per year ($30,962 per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209780
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Not so lucky any more : CEO compensation in financially distressed firms
Kang, Qiang (contributor); Mitnik, Oscar A. (contributor) - 2008
examining the CEO compensation of U.S. public companies that were ever in financial distress between 1992 and 2005. Using a bias … compensation. The bulk of the reduction in total compensation derives from the decline in value of stock option grants, which we … below or at the lowest stock price of the grant month, and we find that the proportion of lucky grants for financially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779098
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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?
Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012
We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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Finance and growth at the firm level : evidence from SBA loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2015
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309136
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Does daylight saving time really make us sick?
Jin, Lawrence; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529402
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Steady-state labor supply elasticities : a survey
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - 2013
supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological … explain larger elasticities in older studies (i.e. an increase in female labor market attachment over time and a switch from …, both in the US and in Europe. …
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