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The Effects of Eu-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers
Muraközy, Balázs - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of non-repayable enterprise grants financed from the European Union's Structural … and Cohesion Funds on firm outcomes in Hungary using firm- and worker-level information on all rejected and successful … regression methods with matching techniques to estimate the effect of grants by comparing successful and unsuccessful applicants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829922
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Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System
Bargain, Olivier - 2012
The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a 'fiscal union' would have a stabilising effect in the event of macroeconomic shocks. In this paper we study the economic effects of introducing two elements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105006
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The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers - an Evaluation Study for Saxony
Fertig, Michael - 2021
This paper investigates whether and to what extent employment policy measures (co-) financed by the European Social Fund in Germany meet their objective. Specifically, it is analyzed whether qualification programs for employed workers in the German state of Saxony were effective in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319492
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Stimulating Local Public Employment : Do General Grants Work?
Lundqvist, Heléne - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor … whether general grants to lower-level governments have the potential of doing so. Applying the regression kink design to the … Swedish grant system, we are able to estimate causal effects of intergovernmental grants on personnel in different local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138257
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Tying Your Enemy's Hands in Close Races : The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda - 2011
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political alignment on federal transfers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125140
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Corrupting Learning : Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio - 2013
involving educational block grants transferred from the central government to municipalities. Using variation in the incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090778
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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
effects on seven nonmonetary welfare measures. In contrast, these funds have no significant impact on extreme and moderate … monetary poverty. These results provide important lessons for policy on the effects of earmarked funds to reduce territorial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836578
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The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power
Firpo, Sergio - 2014
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such a strategy is rewarded by voters who elect politicians who assist their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059677
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Decentralizing Education Resources : School Grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2015
resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024940
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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict
Lacomba, Juan A. - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078824