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We estimate the labor force participation (LFP) response to the introduction of means-tested minimum pensions in the UK through the Old-Age Pension Act (OAP) of 1908. The OAP was a major social policy intervention and the first one to universally target older workers in a time of very limited...
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This paper focuses on the evaluation of an incentive program for firms implemented in southern Italy during the last decade. In the framework of the policy instruments aimed to reduce territorial disparities, and to support local development, territorial integrated projects (TIP) constituted a...
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In 2001, the AZF plant exploded in Toulouse (France). The accident was unexpected, it strongly damaged local housing and benefited from a wide media coverage. It provides a rare opportunity to analyze the consequences of a shift in risk perception on housing markets and neighborhoods subject to...
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discontinuity design method. Both methods yield similar results. We highlight a strong positive impact of this policy on employment …, no significant impact on their employment level can be detected. Besides, this policy promotes sectors of activity that … weakly stimulate local employment and development. Overall, these results suggest that firms are sensitive to tax cuts but …
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In the last years, and particularly since the publication of the famous Barca Report (Barca, 2009), the European Union (EU) is starting to acknowledge the importance of spatially targeted regional policies and to understand how crucial a territorial approach can be in order to achieve desirable...
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following outputs have been considered: odds of employment, earnings and odds of emigration. Both administrative data and web … of employment nor on earnings, while it seems to have increased the odds of emigration. These findings imply that lagging …
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number of patents, R&D expenditure and employment as well as R&D intensity (defined as R&D expenditures relative to total …
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