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We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simu1taneousmodel, allowing for interregional commuting. The proposed dynamic specificationdistinguishes between short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects and it encompassesthe lagged-adjustment specification that is...
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high levels of human capital. -- local multipliers ; local labor markets ; labor demand …
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This paper analyzes the effects of localized labor demand shocks in the tradable sector, such as the establishment of a …
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This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German State of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on broadband quality...
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This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between …
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-treatment subminimum wages. Worker-level data further suggests that labor-labor substitution is at work, with an increase in the share of …
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Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a … across space, we find that photovoltaic installations created at least twice as many jobs in slack than in tight labor … investment, capital-labor substitution, or regional migration. This leaves crowding-out as the most plausible mechanism. …
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services is higher compared to other establishments. Furthermore, the main factors determining labor demand in this field are …
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