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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004
, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: (i) Education and governance raise the level of TFP … directly; and (ii) education and governance also raise TFP through their interaction with foreign R&D in R …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278016
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The causal effects of an industrial policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; Van … - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282152
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268671
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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending
Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268861
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Welfare and employment: a European dilemma?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - 2008
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269379
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Labor market policies and outcomes: cross country evidence for the EU-27
Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2007
We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on indicators of policy generosity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271875
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Labor market policies, institutions and employment rates in the EU-27
Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2008
We compare labor market policies, institutions and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on indicators of policy generosity (expenditures relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271881
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The contribution of social transfers to the reduction of poverty
Longford, Nicholas T.; Nicodemo, Catia - 2010
We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this purpose is served in the countries that participated in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in 2007. Motivated by the findings, we characterise a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274636
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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274676