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The economic impact of telecommunications diffusion on UK productivity growth

Correa, Lisa - 2003

This paper investigates the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure competition, investment and …, amongst other things, emanated from encouraging infrastructure investment, in their production processes. Thus the analysis … demonstrates that U.K. government policies on telecommunications and its investment incentives may have wide-reaching consequences …

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Corruption and Firms

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Prem, Mounu - 2019

We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic activity concentrated in sectors most dependent on government...

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Ökonomische Wirkungen der Handwerksnovelle 2004: Ergebnisse aus einem quasinatürlichen Experiment

Koch, Andreas; Nielen, Sebastian - 2016

Die Reform der Handwerksordnung des Jahres 2004 brachte insbesondere durch die Abschaffung der Meisterpflicht für mehr als die Hälfte der Gewerbezweige des Handwerks eine umfassende Liberalisierung der Zugangsbedingungen. Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert unter Verwendung von Daten des...

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: The causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a major change in child-subsidy policy in Germany in 2007 designed to both …

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The impact of health and education on labor force participation in aging societies: Projections for the United States and Germany from a dynamic microsimulation

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2021

2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections …. Both the US and Germany are expected to undergo demographic aging, but their demographic fundamentals differ starkly. This … 2020 and 2060, while Germany will experience a decline by 10.7 percent (4.4 million workers). In these baseline projections …

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Re-evaluating an evaluation study: The case of the German health care reform of 1997

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

This paper reports on a re-evaluation of the German health care reform of 1997. A previous evaluation found a limited effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based on a representative household survey, the German...

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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? The dynamic effects of alternative training schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Does supporting passenger railways reduce road traffic externalities?

Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013

procurement mode following a railway reform in Germany to address endogeneity of service growth. Increases in service frequency …

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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits

Raute, Anna - 2018

benefit reform in Germany that considerably increased the financial incentives, by up to 21,000 EUR, for highly educated and …

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Simple versus optimal rules as guides to policy

Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N.; Nason, James M.; … - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy evaluation literature by developing new strategies to study alternative policy rules. We compare optimal rules to simple rules within canonical monetary policy models. In our context, an optimal rule represents the solution to an intertemporal optimization...

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