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Special economic zones : 20 years later
Jensen, Camilla; Winiarczyk, Marcin - 2014
In this paper the authors undertake an ex-post evaluation of whether the special economic zones (SEZs) introduced in Poland in 1994 have been successful in meeting regional development objectives. They evaluate the policy of as many of its objectives as possible: employment creation, business...
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Income tax exemption as a regional state aid in special economic zones and its impact upon development of Polish districts
Ambroziak, Adam A. - 2014
per entrepreneur and a decrease in the unemployment rate at poviat level). The conducted research allowed for the … aid granted in SEZs and an increase in GVFA per company or a decrease in the unemployment rate. However on the basis of …
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The causal economic effects of Olympic Games on host regions
Firgo, Matthias - 2019
This paper studies the effects of hosting Olympic Games on the regional economy in the short- and long-run. For identification, runners-up in the Olympic bidding process are used to construct the counterfactual for Olympic host regions. In the short-run, hosting Summer Olympics boosts regional...
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic control
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2014
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …
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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Gobillon, Laurent - 2014
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s …
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Regional Policy Evaluation : Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls
Gobillon, Laurent - 2013
unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078823
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Do case workers help the unemployed? : evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers
Rosholm, Michael - 2014
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...
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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
Arni, Patrick; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lalive, Rafael - 2015
(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
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The macroeconomics of labor and credit market imperfections
Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - 2000
Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …
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