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This paper investigates economic and subjective effects of public business assistance delivered to nascent entrepreneurs in Germany. Employing cluster analysis, we explore the actual scope and intensity of business assistance used. Then we analyze predictors of take-up and perceived usefulness...
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: the Centre-North and the South. Our results suggest that the timing and magnitude of the reaction of employment rate to … different variables seem to drive employment dynamics. In the South employment is mainly driven by its own shocks and by social … and economic context variables. By contrast, in the northern regions, the employment dynamics is significantly explained …
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This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal sector. It has even been argued that the impact on the informal sector in the case of the minimum...
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One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the...
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successful in improving labor market attachment and increasing disposable income of new lone mothers. By contrast, the reform led … to a substantial decrease in disposable income and a significant increase in poverty among persistent lone mothers … that the desired effects of the workfare reform were associated with the side-effects of income loss and increased poverty …
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A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people's cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of policies that specifically target students' non-cognitive skills as a way to improve educational...
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the case before. Interestingly, the employment integration of immigrants has declined gradually, and in 2006 the … employment rate for foreign-born individuals is substantially lower compared to the native-born. The aim of this paper is to … explore the link between citizenship and employment probabilities for immigrants in Sweden, controlling for a range of …
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Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
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policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis Domestic Violence experiment (MDVE), which was …
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In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …
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