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Corporate training and skill gaps : did COVID-19 stem EU convergence in training investments?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022
remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260142
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The impact of opportunity zones on commercial investment and economic activity
Corinth, Kevin; Feldman, Naomi - 2022
the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in … the impact of OZs on commercial investment and economic activity. Using data on the universe of all significant commercial … investments in the United States, we find that OZ selection led to practically no increase in investment in OZs. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187185
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Interest rate hysteresis in macroeconomic investment under uncertainty
Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias - 2019
The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this … paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099522
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Unions, two-tier bargaining and physical capital investment : theory and firm-level evidence from Italy
Cardullo, Gabriele; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2018
level, raises the amount of investment per worker in the economy compared to a one-tier bargaining scheme, in which earnings … investment per worker and the presence of a two-tier bargaining agreement that we find in a representative sample of Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951741
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Interest rate bands of inaction and play-hysteresis in domestic investment : evidence for the Euro area
Belke, Ansgar; Frenzel Baudisch, Coletta; Göcke, Matthias - 2019
The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099559
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Evaluating the impact of community-based health interventions : evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2009
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We find consistent effects of the program on reductions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831242
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Does universalization of healthwork? : evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2019
We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of births. Using rich administrative data, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974631
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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903965
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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic gaps in Latin America
Ñopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - 2010
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779126
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Evolution of gender wage gaps in latin america at the turn of the twentieth century : an addendum to "new century, old disparities"
Ñopo, Hugo; Hoyos, Alejandro - 2010
This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780044