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The Effects of Eu-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers
Muraközy, Balázs - 2020
our simple calculations, each year's subsidy program created jobs in grant winning firms equivalent to 0.3-0.5 percent of …
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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...
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The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain
Beynon, Huw - 2020
Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in areas once dominated coalmining remain among the strongest and durable bases for the trade union...
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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
Herbst, Chris M. - 2011
receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest office that administers the subsidy application process. Using … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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Higher Education in Turkey : Subsidizing the Rich or the Poor?
Caner, Asena - 2012
We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with different socioeconomic backgrounds. We use a unique dataset from a nationally representative sample of university entrance exam takers together with data on government subsidies...
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Getting Back into the Labor Market : The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...
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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-Being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
Brodeur, Abel - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
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Fostering the Emancipation of Young People : Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2012
this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility …. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is conditional on young adults renting accommodation, and it amounts to almost … 20 percent of the average youngsters' wage. Our identification strategy exploits the subsidy eligibility age threshold to …
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Child Care Assistance : Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?
Gong, Xiaodong - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
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