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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Goolsbee, Austan - 2015

This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....

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Political Economy of Industrialization and Industrial Parks in Ethiopia

Kebede, Selamawit; Heshmati, Almas - 2023

This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political institutions during three political regimes and assesses the industrial sector's performance across these different regimes. Further, it evaluates the different industrial...

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Criscuolo, Chiara - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy : The Spanish Case

Simon, Hipolito - 2011

We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We …, immigrants experience a strong occupational downgrading in Spain when compared to their origin countries. This fact is due to the …

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Is There Discriminatory Mortgage Pricing Against Immigrants in the Spanish Lending Market?

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2011

In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage market exists. More specifically, we test whether, ceteris paribus, immigrant borrowers tend to be charged with higher interest rates on their mortgages than their Spanish born...

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Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain : Accounting for Differences in the Supports

Nicodemo, Catia - 2011

The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account …

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Commuting Time and Labour Supply : A Causal Effect?

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2011

We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker's commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on...

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Work, Risk and Health : Differences between Immigrants and Natives in Spain

Solé, Meritxell - 2010

We analyze the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk associated to it. We assume this choice is...

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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel - 2010

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …

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