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Government grants, plant survival and employment growth: a micro-econometric analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
empirical analysis. Our results indicate that particularly capital related, but also other types of grants can provide an … grants between foreign multinationals and domestic plants. Specifically, while grants have helped to stimulate employment … contrast, grants have in general been successful in not only helping domestic plants to survive longer, but also to create more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265398
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European Funds and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Mesquita, José; Pereira dos Santos, João; Tavares, José - 2023
led to a sudden increase in accessibility to EU grants for firms located in 33 Portuguese municipalities. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469373
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric Albert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry … grants appears to be recouped in additional wage streams under reasonable assumptions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761769
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Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
empirical analysis. Our results indicate that particularly capital related, but also other types of grants can provide an … grants between foreign multinationals and domestic plants. Specifically, while grants have helped to stimulate employment … contrast, grants have in general been successful in not only helping domestic plants to survive longer, but also to create more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762360
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Quality of Higher Education and the Labor Market in Developing Countries: Evidence from an Education Reform in Senegal
Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Larouche, Alexandre; Trandafir, … - 2015
While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We exploit the quasi-experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to investigate how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288224
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Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?
Spencer, Marilyn; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015
This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time faculty and staff members at a public university in the United States, we study the impact of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307378
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Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
Feld, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401715
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Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?
Haapanen, Mika; Böckerman, Petri - 2013
This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous...
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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
Epstein, Gil S.; Menis, Joseph - 2013
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328907
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Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device
Ketel, Nadine; Linde, Jona; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der … - 2014
This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition fee. The sunk-cost effect predicts that students who receive larger discounts will attend fewer...
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