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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
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 more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008
innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298693
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480422
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A primer on the 35-hour in France, 1997 - 2007
Askenazy, Philippe - 2008
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …
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The Effects of Cross-border M&As on the Acquirers' Domestic Performance – Firm-level Evidence
Stiebale, Joel; Trax, Michaela - 2010
the U.K. and France. We build a new firm-level dataset that combines a global M&A database with balance sheet data for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269996
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …
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Die Niederlande - ein Vorbild für Deutschland?
Flassbeck, Heiner; Spiecker, Friederike - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 82 (2002) 5, pp. 266-271
immer wieder auf die Niederlande verwiesen. Dr. Heiner Flassbeck und Friederike Spiecker analysieren, ob das niederländische … Modell ein Vorbild für ein großes Land wie Deutschland sein kann. …
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Business dynamics and employment growth: a cross-country analysis
van Stel, André J.; Diephuis, Bart - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276934
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332737