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Economic globalization has created many challenges for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to the rapid increase in competition. Therefore, the downfall rate of SMEs is relatively high, a short period after their commencement. Accordingly, SMEs need to adopt survival strategies and strategic...
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Unsere Gesellschaft ist mit zahlreichen globalen Herausforderungen wie zum Beispiel mit dem Klimawandel oder mit instabilen Finanzmärkten konfrontiert. Da diese Herausforderungen nationale Kompetenzen überschreiten, sind zu ihrer Bewältigung internationale Kooperation und Koordination...
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Economic sanctions are a frequent instrument of foreign policy. In a diplomatic conflict, they aim to elicit a change … in the policies of foreign governments by damaging their economy. However, sanctions are not costless for the sending …. We first gauge the impact of the sanctions' regime using a structural gravity framework and quantify the trade losses in …
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This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...
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We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data,...
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In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the impact of disciplinary sanctions imposed on Spanish auditing firms … and their engagement partners. The disciplinary sanctions resulted from external investigations, which revealed …
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We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data,...
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With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … cut for three months. We analyze the impact of these sanctions on job search outcomes and on transitions out of the labor … job, but that these jobs go along with lower earnings due to first but not the second sanction. Moreover, first sanctions …
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Are victims of human rights abuses better off with or without economic sanctions targeted at their perpetrators? We …
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on economic sanctions: the Peterson Institute data base reported in Hufbauer et al. (Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 2nd … definition of sanction contribution increase the success ratio in general and ultimately the share of sanctions that are judged … characteristics, including the positive impact of the costs of sanctions to the sender, duration of the sanctions and the sender …
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