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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903630
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Covid-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
fiscal costs (0.8% of GDP). Less targeted policies such as government guaranteed loans are similarly effective, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244116
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Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity : Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects
Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2017
We study the impact of FDI on the productivity of host-country firms. FDI has positive spillovers only when foreign and domestic firms use similar technologies. Channeling FDI to sectors where firms share similar technology would significantly increase productivity spillovers from FDI. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950067
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - 2021
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229009