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The wage effects of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the GSOEP for West Germany. Different estimators which take into account selection bias are used. It is shown that propensity score matching estimators which are usually applied for the evaluation of active labour market...
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The paper investigates whether (unsubsidised) fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are a means of integration for the unemployed in the West German labour market. This is done by analysing whether entering into an FTC improves the employment opportunities of an unemployed person in terms of the...
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research aims to know what has been the behavior of productivity and efficiency of the manufacturing industry in the province … data enveloping analysis technique. With the annual information, the evolution of productivity and efficiency was predicted … until 2022. In the nine years, the results show that the productivity indicators and the number of companies that are …
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This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on … rates increase firm's productivity while high shares of temporary contracts decrease it. Both effects are quantitatively …
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international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …
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international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …
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If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the existence of a similar link at the level of the firm has been challenged by empirical work. This paper investigates the channels linking investment and firm performance in the French...
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foreign competition generate gains in plant productivity? We find that it does. We examine Colombian trade policy from 1977 to … industries, to investigate the link between trade policy and plant productivity. Using a rich panel of manufacturing plants, we … input demands and productivity. These estimates are used to derive plant-level time-varying productivity measures for which …
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