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Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries

Chung, Yeimin; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML index) method and decomposes the index. The results are compared with those obtained from the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two...

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Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure

Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model’s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …

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Equilibrium Unemployment and Investment Under Product and Labour Market Imperfections

Kauppi, Heikki; Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …

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Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock

Verick, Sher; Letterie, Wilko; Pfann, Gerard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into … investment which allows us to observe regime separation, an aspect of the data that is typically absent from previous empirical … concentrating investment in a single year. Moreover, there is evidence that investment is more sensitive to fundamentals in the high …

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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....

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Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks

Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Bao, Shuming; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Since the 1980s, China’s government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, has greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that...

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Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment - A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands

Polder, Michael; Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …

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