This paper presents new econometric evidence on state government’s demand for resources to support local agricultural experiment station research. The econometric model consists of a complete-demand system covering four major resource sources, and it is fitted to annual observations on 48...

This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...

Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, whilein several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others theshare of employment in this sector did not significantly change...

Penetration und Wachstum des Breitbandmarktes werden in Deutschland bislang (nahezu) ausschließlich durch DSL als Breitbandzugangstechnologie getragen. 94% des Gesamtmarktes waren Ende 2007 dieser Technologie zuzuordnen. Die Kabelnetze brachten es gerade einmal auf 5% Marktanteil. Vor dem...

With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data,it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data...

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eightlabour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginalemployment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hoursusing a new panel data set...