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Statistical Methods to Evaluate Geographically-Targeted Economic Development Programs
Bondonio, Daniele - 2000
In recent years an increasing amount of efforts has been devoted to the evaluation of geographically-targeted economic development (GTED) programs. In the U.S. and in Great Britain, geographically-targeted business incentives (denominated Enterprise Zone programs) are an important policy...
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WHY IS U.S. POVERTY HIGHER IN NONMETROPOLITAN THAN METROPOLITAN AREAS? EVIDENCE FROM THE PANEL STUDY OF INCOME DYNAMICS
Fisher, Monica G. - 2005
In the United States, low-income people are not evenly distributed across the rural-urban landscape. Does this phenomenon partly reflect that people who "choose" to live in rural areas have unmeasured attributes related to poverty? To address this question, I use data from nine waves of the...
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Essays in Labor and Political Economics
Tuzemen, Didem - 2011
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the dissertation by summarizing the two papers presented in the following chapters.The paper in the second chapter contributes to the labor-macro literature. More specifically, I develop a general equilibrium...
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On the job search in a matching model with heterogeneous jobs and workers
Dolado Lobregad, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno … - 2008
Incluye bibliografía ; This paper examines the effects of transitory skill mismatch in a matching model with heterogeneous jobs and workers. In our model, some high-educated workers may accept unskilled jobs for which they are over-qualified but are allowed to engage in on-the-job search in...
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Should I stay or should I go? : austerity, unemployment and migration
Bandeira, Guilherme; Caballé Vilella, Jordi; Vella, Eugenia - 2018
La elevada tasa de paro y la austeridad fiscal durante la Gran Recesión han provocado importantes movimientos migratorios procedentes de los países europeos que sufrieron un profundo deterioro de su economía, siendo Grecia el caso más obvio. En este trabajo se introduce una decisión...
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Human Capital in Newly Established Firms - Four Empirical Investigations
Müller, Kathrin Marie - 2011
In Deutschland wurden im vergangenen Jahrzehnt jedes Jahr etwa 237.000 neue Unternehmen gegründet. Da … unternehmens-, gründer- und branchenspezifische Faktoren konnten gefunden werden, die einen Einfluss auf die Arbeitsnachfrage … Spezialthema akademischer Unternehmensgründungen in den forschungs- und wissensintensiven Industrien in Deutschland. Einige junge …
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Three Essays on Worker Turnover and Incentive Contracts in Labour Market Search Equilibrium
Zaharieva, Anna - 2010
This dissertation thesis consists of three independent research papers and is devoted to the topic of worker turnover and incentive contracts in a labour market characterized by search frictions and matching. There exists a large body of literature dating back to the seminal studies by Diamond,...
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Fiscal Federalism, Citizen-Candidate Mobility and Political Competition
Nastassine, Stanislav - 2005
. Weitere Diskussionen um den Aufbau des Föderalismus in der Europäischen Union und die Reformen des Föderalismus in Deutschland … Ansätze können dabei unterschieden werden, nämlich die traditionelle finanzwissenschaftliche Theorie des „fiskalischen …
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Essays on Systems Competition with Human Capital Mobility
Lange, Thomas - 2010
This thesis is a collection of four stand-alone essays on international competition for human capital, together with a general introduction and some concluding remarks. The first essay deals with decentralized public education and human capital mobility. The international mobility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471822
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Die Finanz- und Kapitalmarktkrise mit den zu erwartenden kurz- und mittelfristigen Auswirkungen auf die Immobilien- und Wohnungswirtschaft in Deutschland
Lange, Stefanie - 2010
In der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit wird ein Überblick über die zu erwartenden Auswirkungen der aktuellen Finanz- und Kapitalmarktkrise auf verschiedene Akteure der deutschen Immobilienwirtschaft gegeben. In diesem Zusammenhang wird näher auf die im Bankensektor angesiedelten Ursachen...
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