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paper attempts an evaluation of the effects of training on future employment and future wages of trainees. The analysis … estimate a simultaneous model for participation in training, employment, and wages. Taking account of selection effects before … participation, our findings mostly suggest positive effects of training on employment or wages. In this respect, public income …
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Wirkungsanalyse von Maßnahmen der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik und diskutiert sowohl den makroökonomischen Zusammenhang zwischen AAMP … Gutachten unternommenen Wirkungsanalyse von Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen in Sachsen vorgestellt und der Entwicklung für …
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Cross-country growth regressions have become an increasingly common tool in empirical development research. But these regressions typically do not attempt to distinguish among countries in different stages of development. Two empirical methods are used to test for such differences. Several of...
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Cross-country growth regressions have in recent years become a major growth industry. The most common purpose of this work has been to investigate the determinants of economic growth. But it is also possible to use the existing growth data to determine the extent to which policy choices help or...
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arises, this paper examines the effects of trade restrictions on consumption and employment in the two countries. When facing … unemployment, a country tends to impose an import restriction so that domestic firms will increase production and raise employment … international competitiveness. Therefore, employment and consumption eventually decrease in the country while in the foreign country …
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Rose & Spiegel (2011) find that Olympic Games host countries experience significant positive and lasting effects on exports. They interpret their results as an indication that countries use the hosting of such an event as a signal of their (new) openness and competitiveness. We challenge these...
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Informal housing arrangements, substandard structures, congestion, and land use conflicts characterize the urban housing problem in the Philippines. The record suggests that the response of the State, especially its reliance on below-market priced mortgage loans, has aggravated rather than...
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The Philippine peso appreciation has been creating serious problems for the economy because of the high degree of unemployment and poverty incidence in the country. More specifically, it threatens contraction of the export sector through loss of competitiveness. The paper tracks the exchange...
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This paper applies an intuitive approach based on stock market data to a unique dataset of large concentrations during the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four...
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