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Living wage laws : how much do (can) they matter?
Holzer, Harry J. (contributor) - 2008
In this paper I review what we have learned about living wage laws and their impacts on the wages, employment and poverty rates of low-wage workers. I review the characteristics of these laws and where they have been implemented to date, and what economic theory tells us about their likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769765
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Inequality and employment in a dual economy : enforcement of labor regulation in Brazil
Almeida, Rita (contributor); Carneiro, Pedro (contributor) - 2007
This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561664
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Employment impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across metropolitan status and size
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249394
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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023
We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...
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Political economy of industrialization and industrial parks in Ethiopia
Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023
This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political … used for exploring the role of political economy in Ethiopian industrialization. Different political strategies were … strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013498899
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Vacancies, employment outcomes and firm growth: evidence from Denmark
Bagger, Jesper; Fontaine, François; Galenianos, Manolēs; … - 2021
We use comprehensive data from Denmark that combine online job advertisements with a matched employer-employee dataset and a firm-level dataset with information on revenues and value added to study the relationship between vacancy-posting and various firm outcomes. Posting a vacancy is...
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High-growth entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
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The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Stier, Claudia - 2022
Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471288
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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction : is sub-saharan Africa different?
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2009
destruction ; job reallocation ; firm dynamics ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; Ethiopia …
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