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"Fine ... I'll do it myself" : lessons from self-employment grants in a long recession period
Srhoj, Stjepan; Zilic, Ivan - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-32
This paper evaluates the effect of a self-employment grant scheme for unemployed individuals-designed to ease the first 12 months of business operation-on firm growth, survival, and labor market reintegration in Croatia in the 2010-2017 period. Grants offered a moderate amount of finances (up to...
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Macroeconomic Conditions and Business Exit : Determinants of Failures and Acquisitions of UK Firms
Bhattacharjee, Arnab; Higson, Chris; Holly, Sean; … - 2007
We study the impact of macroeconomic instability on business exit in a world where acquisition and bankruptcy are co-determined. Our objective is to discover how the processes that determine bankruptcies and acquisitions depend on the macroeconomic environment, particularly, macroeconomic...
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset : Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, many … of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are … purposes. Therefore, information that might be relevant for economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims …
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The determinants of regional migration in Great Britain : a duration approach
Andrews, Martyn J. (contributor); Clark, Kenneth (contributor) - 2008
Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find...
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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?
Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015
This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...
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Estimating the Value of Safety with Labor Market Data : Are the Results Trustworthy?
Hintermann, Beat; Alberini, Anna; Markandya, Anil - 2006
We use a panel dataset of UK workers to look for evidence of compensating wage differentials for workplace risk. Risk data are available at the four-digit industry level or at the three-digit occupation level. We discuss various econometric problems associated with the hedonic wage approach,...
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Developing country business cycles : characterising the cycle
Male, Rachel - 2010
Classical business cycles, following Burns and Mitchell (1946), can be defined as the sequential pattern of expansions and contractions in aggregate economic activity. Recently, Harding and Pagan (2002, 2006) have provided an econometric toolkit for the analysis of these cycles, and this has...
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Is a temporary job better than unemployment? : a cross-country comparison based on Britsh, German, and Swiss panel data
Gebel, Michael - 2013
While many previous studies on temporary work have found disadvantages for temporary workers as compared to workers with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper investigates the potential integrative power of taking up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713164
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Is a Temporary Job Better than Unemployment? A Cross-Country Comparison Based on British, German, and Swiss Panel Data
Gebel, Michael - 2013
While many previous studies on temporary work have found disadvantages for temporary workers as compared to workers with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper investigates the potential integrative power of taking up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160236
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The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain : A Duration Approach
Andrews, Martyn J.; Clark, Kenneth; Whittaker, William - 2021
Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324888