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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269176
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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998
. The paper utilizes a new dataset that is based on migration from 86 African and Asian countries to Germany. Information is … available on overall moves (1981-1995) and asylum migration (1984-1995). The estimation results confirm the importance of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262258
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Following Germany's Lead : Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy
di Giovanni, Julian; McCrary, Justin; von Wachter, Till - 2005
rates on real output growth for several European countries, using German interest rates as the instrument. We compare this … policy was more independent of Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262211
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Estimation in a Duration Model for Evaluating Educational Programs
Brännäs, Kurt - 2000
The paper proposes two estimation approaches for duration models that are subject to right censored observations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262324
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Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple imputation approach
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, … - 2009
using complete data methods. Estimation and inference uses Reiter's (Survey Methodology 2003) formulae. Using Current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269337
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R&D drivers in young innovative companies
García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of young innovative companies' (YICs) R&D activities taking into account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990-2008, we find that previous R&D experience is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282464
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Institutional determinants of new firm entry in Russia: a cross regional analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - 2008
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/10010268605
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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from … their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the … shows that at no point in time German employers preferred strict over flexible job security regulations. Quite the contrary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269936
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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1999
them for the case of migration to Germany from 86 Asian and African countries from 1981 to 1995. The results confirm the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262276
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
representative sample of the German population. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621