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Employment concentration and resource allocation: One-company towns in Russia
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Plekhanov, Alexander - 2011
-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality … the dominance of natural resources in the Russian economy and employment concentration is closely linked. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282607
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Helping hand or grabbing hand? State bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009
privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269020
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Investor protection and the value of shares: evidence from statutory rules governing variations of shareholders' class rights in Russia
Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
companies in Russia and using the difference-in-difference estimator, the study finds a statistically and economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269433
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Employment protection legislation in Russia: regional enforcement and labour market outcomes
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapelyushnikov, Rostislav; … - 2009
likely to cause variation in performance. This paper looks at Russia in particular. The main idea of this paper is to analize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274408
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … and export exposure. We find that the rise of the East in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German … trade integration has caused some 493,000 additional jobs in the economy and contributed to retaining the manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
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Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2004
This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ?new economic geography? model with two trade integrating regions. The location pattern emerging as market equilibrium is ?bubbleshaped?, i.e. it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262068
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Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen
Bonin, Holger; Schneider, Hilmar - 2006
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of occupational training programs for the unemployed before and after the substantial amendments in German labor market legislation known as Hartz reforms. Based on the official evaluation of the reforms, we show that program impacts vary much across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267339
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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex
Eichhorst, Werner - 2007
Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsprobleme des deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nicht alle Schwierigkeiten überwunden. Für die Zukunft besteht die zentrale Herausforderung darin, eine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268294
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Reforming German labor market institutions: a dual path to flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268995
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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282633