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Export-led growth after COVID-19: the case of Portugal

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are … Kingdom, France and Japan. We discuss the trade facilitation and industrial policy implications for utilizing these … opportunities in the context of the relevant literature on trade and development. …

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Innovation and SMEs patent propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2015

This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …'s academic credentials are positively related with propensity to patent. From the findings, we can conclude that patenting …

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Speeding, punishment, and recidivism : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017

This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in the German traffic penalty catalogue maintains that drivers who commit a series of speeding transgressions within 365 days should have their license suspended for one month. My...

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How does occupational licensing affect entry into the medical field? : an examination of EMTs

Yelowitz, Aaron S.; Ingram, Samuel J. - 2021

The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to temporary suspensions of many occupational licensing laws, especially for health care professionals, in an effort to manage surges in health care demand. The crisis highlights more general concerns about occupational licensing laws, yet convincing empirical...

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Labor market impacts of states issuing of driving licenses to undocumented immigrants

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2018

Twelve U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia, have recently enacted measures granting undocumented immigrants access to driving licenses. We exploit the state and temporal variation in the issuing of state driving licenses to undocumented immigrants to estimate its impact on these...

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Bias and discrimination: what do we know?

Della Giusta, Marina; Bosworth, Steven - 2020

The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting...

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Signaling effects on the labor market : winners and losers of university licensing in a higher education reform

Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo; Armas, Joaquin; … - 2024

We investigate the effects of a higher education reform on the labor market outcomes of college graduates in Peru. The cornerstone of this piece of legislation was a licensing process whereby a newly created higher education superintendency evaluated every existing university on minimum quality...

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The return to the firm investment in human capital

Almeida, Rita (contributor); Carneiro, Pedro (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. We use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as their...

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Large employers are more cyclically sensitive

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2009

We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...

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The gender pay gap in top corporate jobs in Denmark : glass ceilings, sticky floors or both?

Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - 2010

This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 largest Danish private companies based on a panel data set of employer-employees data covering the period 1996-2005. During the period, the overall gender gap in compensation for...

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