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Investment climate and employment growth: The impact of access to finance, corruption and regulations across firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2007
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
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Do Marginal Products Differ from User Costs? Micro-Level Evidence from Italian Firms
Lenzu, Simone; Manaresi, Francesco - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342548
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Switching costs, firm size, and market structure
Loertscher, Simon; Schneider, Yves - 2005
In many markets, homogenous goods and services are sold both by large global frms and small local frms. Surprisingly, the large frms charge, often substantially, higher prices. Examples include hotels, airlines, and coffee shops. This paper provides a parsimonious model that can account for...
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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size, and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - 2013
This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
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The linkages between FDI and domestic investment: Unravelling the developmental impact of foreign investment
Ndikumana, Leonce; Verick, Sher - 2007
-Saharan Africa. The results suggest that firstly, FDI crowds in domestic investment, and secondly, countries will gain much from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287877
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Labour market dynamics in Australia: What drives unemployment
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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Extended unemployment benefits and early retirement: Program complementarity and program substitution
Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …
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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?
Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012
.1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … government expenditures would have amounted to 264 million Euros per year. Due to higher unemployment insurance claims and …
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The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish knowledge lift program
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard; Vroman, Susan - 2008
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317901
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Migrants, ethnicity and the welfare state
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
newcomers. This social phenomenon and affects wages and unemployment. We show that the growth in the unemployment and social …
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