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This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums consistently with the reform, in particular firms making … and sales following the reform. Our results also highlight the important but not exclusive role of legal restrictions on …
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analyses the impact of the Austrian reform proposal 'Neue Sozialhilfe' ("New Social Assistance"), which was introduced in 2019 … supply elasticities in our estimates, the overall effects of the reform are especially strong for men and migrants. Couples … with children and migrants, i.e. the groups which were hit the hardest by the reform’s social assistance reductions, show …
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This paper evaluates two hypothetical budget-neutral reforms that shift resources from family tax expenditures to family cash transfers. We evaluate these reforms using a structural labor supply model based on the microsimulation EUROMOD model and EUSILC data. We find that both reforms have an...
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recommendation of the Belgian Pension Reform Committee, this policy is to be suppressed for new pensioners, except for those … receiving the minimum pension. We provide an ex-ante impact evaluation of such reform on both pension sustainability and … another. Overall, despite the positive poverty and distributional aspects of this policy, our analysis supports the reform …
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This study explores the impact of COVID-19 and how Vietnamese citizens perceived and experienced measures adopted by central and local governments to contain the CVODI-19 pandemic in 2021. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic had a more severe impact in 2021 than in 2020. Citizens showed great...
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Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the Chinese labor market demand during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The analyses reveal that the lockdown policy, which was implemented in Wuhan on January 23, 2020,...
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This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by …
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We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it using data from India. We argue that an area characterized by coreperiphery economic structure creates regional inequality in which the periphery remains dependent on the core for...
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We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the...
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