positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 … employment. However, the effects are rather negligible and only amount to a 1.5 to 2 percent net loss of the change in employment …

Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to … account for most new jobs. As a result, temporary employment increased from around 10% in the mid-eighties to more than 30% in … the early nineties. In 1997, however, the Spanish government attempted to reduce the incidence of temporary employment by …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …

banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it …

the more significant vehicle for productivity enhancing effects of trade openness. Investment in technology is, by far …

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of … the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many … to represent the effect of a 10% increase in the minimum wage on wages or employment. Second, different minimum wage …

employment effects, accounting for sorting into the formal and informal sectors. The data used is a monthly Brazilian household … survey from 1982 to 2000 at individual and regional levels. The formal and informal sectors employment effects were both …

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture … will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data …