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This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...
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employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … depends on their employment status and household characteristics. Using a simultaneous sequential approach, we consider links …
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This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an...
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This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …-owned firms experience higher job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment- creating effects of product … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
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Der vorliegende Beitrag liefert eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse der Evaluation der Einführung des Mindestlohnes in der Abfallwirtschaft zum 01.01.2010. Die Evaluation setzt sich aus einem Branchenbild sowie einer kausalen Wirkungsanalyse des Mindestlohnes auf Basis einer...
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a breakdown of production and employment followed by a slow recovery starting in 1992. In this paper, a macroeconometric … model is used to assess this development. In particular, estimation results for investment and employment adjustment after … this paper to cover also unified Germany. The results reveal that the adjustment of investment and employment can be …
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This paper examines the role of alternative assumptions on savings and expectations for the fixwage traverse with strong forward biased technological change. After briefly outlining the model, some peculiarities of the adjustment path under the Hicksian Q-Assumption are investigated....
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This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …
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