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The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria

Bekhtiar, Karim - 2023

In recent decades right-wing populist parties have experienced increased electoral success in many western democracies. This rise of the far-right, which is strongly built on the support of the working class, coincides with a sharp decline of the manufacturing sector. This paper analyzes the...

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The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria

Bekhtiar, Karim - 2023

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Costs and benefits of trade shocks: Evidence from Chilean local labor markets

César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022

shocks across industries. We take advantage of China's supply and demand's worldwide shocks to instrument for Chinese import … competition and demand for Chilean exports. Our main finding is that increasing manufacturing import competition implied a … also suffered significant relative wage losses. Meanwhile, locations that benefited most from the increased demand for …

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Beschäftigungsprognosen auf Basis amtlicher Firmendaten als Instrument einer handlungsorientierten Politikberatung am Beispiel Brandenburg

Höhne, Markus; Kampe, Carsten; Lejpras, Anna; Stephan, … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 76 (2007) 3, pp. 88-112

, compiled from official statistics for the projection of the demand for labour differentiated at the sectoral and/or regional …

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DOES STATE AID FOR BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT IN RURAL AREAS CLOSE THE DIGITAL AND ECONOMIC DIVIDE?

Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2017

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. We find that aided municipalities have—depending on quality— between 16.8 and 23.2 percentage points higher broadband...

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Thinking about Local Living Wage Requirements

Bartik, Timothy J. - 2002

This paper reviews what we currently know about the benefits and costs of different varieties of a "living wage": a local government requirement, now adopted by over 50 local governments, for wages above the federal minimum imposed on employers with some financial link to the local government....

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Woman and the labour market in East and West Germany: Socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition

Wyrwich, Michael - 2017

There is a large and successful literature exploiting the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. This paper contributes to this literature by reassessing the role of legacy effects of socialist labour...

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Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...

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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007

Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...

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Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden

Moretti, Enrico; Thulin, Per - 2012

We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...

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