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Do reported attitudes towards Immigrants predict ethnic discrimination?
Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2012
Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...
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Macroeconomic implications of agglomeration
Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Whited, Toni M. - 2010
agglomeration on per capita consumption growth. Agglomeration affects growth through the density of economic activity: higher … effect of agglomeration on local wages. The impact of agglomeration on the level of wages is estimated to be 2 percent …. Combined with their model and observed increases in land prices, this estimate implies that agglomeration raises per capita …
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Isolation and development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer - 2009
This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
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Increasing Returns, Input-Output Linkages, and Technological Leapfrogging
Gallo, Fredrik - 2006
increasing in the benefits of agglomeration. Greater incompatibility between technologies also increases the risk of rejecting …
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Cournot Competition, Market Size Effects and Agglomeration
Gallo, Fredrik - 2005
different regions. Lowering the trade costs beyond a critical level triggers an agglomeration of industry in the larger region …. This process of agglomeration is gradual in nature and trade costs have to be successively lowered for a full …-scale agglomeration to take place. …
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Business takeovers and firm growth: Empirical evidence from a German panel
Habermann, Harald - 2017
The present article links business takeovers to the literature on serial autocorrelation of growth rates. The aim of the study is to identify the effects of successions on the performance of small German firms by analysing the growth pathways over a period of eight years after business takeover....
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Global links and local bonds. The role of ownership and size in productivity growth
Taymaz, Erol; Voyvoda, Ebru; Yilmaz, Kamil - 2010
This paper examines direct and indirect contributions of foreign firms and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to aggregate productivity growth. We focus our attention on foreign firms and small firms for three reasons. First, industrial policy in almost all countries is oriented towards...
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Intangible investment and technical efficiency: The case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Fındık, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the production function and the determinants of technical efficiency in the software intensive...
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Microentrepreneurship and the business cycle: Is self-employment a desired outcome?
Mandelman, Federico S.; Montes Rojas, Gabriel V. - 2007
This paper links employment dynamics to the business cycle in order to examine the voluntary nature of self-employment in Argentina. Our results suggest that the transition to self-employment is more common during recessions and that the likelihood of becoming self-employed increases with the...
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Tuning an Online Shop: Consumer Reactions to E-tailers' Service Quality
Hackl, Franz; Weiss, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009
This paper investigates the impact of service quality in e-tailing on site visits and consumer demand (approximated by the last-click- through concept). We use a large representative data set obtained from a price-comparison site which covers most of the national (Austrian) market on e-tailing....
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