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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs? Estimates from Universal Panel Data and Longitudinal Matching Methods
Brown, J. David - 2013
employment, using a complete list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2010. The estimation … employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of about 25 …
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Credit supply, firms, and earnings inequality
Moser, Christian; Saidi, Farzad; Wirth, Benjamin; … - 2021
construct a novel dataset that links worker employment histories to firm financials and banking relationships in Germany. Firms … relative contraction in credit supply, associated with lower average wages and employment. These effects are heterogeneous … within and between firms. Within firms, initially lower-paid workers are more likely to leave employment, while initially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511768
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Heterogeneous Elasticities of Bank Loan Supply : Evidence from SBA Loan Guarantee Expansion
Choi, Bong-Geun - 2019
US Small Business Administration (SBA) temporarily expanded its loan subsidy program from 2009 to 2010 in an effort to stimulate loans to small businesses. We explore the heterogeneous bank responses following this policy change. Using a novel data that merges the quarterly bank-level call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864346
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Testing for selection bias
Joo, Joonhwi; LaLonde, Robert John - 2014
This paper uses the control function to develop a framework for testing for selection bias. The idea behind our framework is if the usual assumptions hold for matching or IV estimators, the control function identifies the presence and magnitude of potential selection bias. Averaging this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010407986
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Frictions to political competition and financial openness
Boukouras, Aristotelis; Koufopoulos, Kostas - 2011
In this paper we present a political economy approach in order to explain the degree of financial openness for an economy. In the model, entrepreneurs, who may have good or bad projects, vote for policies, which are proposed by selfish politicians. Two political frictions (ideological adherence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343867
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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019
earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052339
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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019
earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035113
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An evaluation of the long-term effects of training programs in Germany and an empirical analysis of the Swiss Minaret Referendum
Orlanski, Olga - 2018
Abstract: Since unemployment rates began to rise in the mid-1970s, reducing unemployment has become a central political challenge in Germany and other European countries. Despite the current improvement of the labor market situation and decreasing rates in Germany, unemployment is still one of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183778
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Employment effects of the new German minimum wage : evidence from establishment-level micro data
Bossler, Mario; Gerner, Hans-Dieter - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2016
Am 1. Januar 2015 wurde in Deutschland der allgemeine gesetzliche Mindestlohn eingeführt. Wir identifizieren Beschäftigungseffekte des Mindestlohns durch Variation in der Betroffenheit von Betrieben. Das IAB-Betriebspanel ermöglicht uns dabei, antizipierende Lohnanpassungen und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441962
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Employment effect of innovation
Kancs, D'Artis; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2019
We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous … relationship between the R&D-driven innovation and firm employment as well as address important econometric issues, which is not … innovation and employment entails important non-linearities responsible for significant differences in employment response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053521