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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pages, Carmen - 2021
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316735
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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2014
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054588
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market : Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317178
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Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems : International Evidence
Burdin, Gabriel; Kato, Takao - 2022
seemingly disparate forms of work practices in different parts of the world, we shed light on how participatory work practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087460
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Measuring Richness and Poverty : A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - 2021
demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324879
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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia : A Cross Regional Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - 2021
We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324946
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Energy Price Shocks and the Demand for Energy-Efficient Housing : Evidence from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Braakmann, Nils; Dursun, Bahadir; Pickard, Harry - 2023
How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260823
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction : An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2015
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034084
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies : Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128229