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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis - 2013

framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …

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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?

Baumann, Julian - 2016

than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …

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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit

Kneiding, Christoph - 2011

This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Bender, Stefan - 2021

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms : The Case of the Disability Law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2021

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled employees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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Choosing the Field of Study in Post-Secondary Education : Do Expected Earnings Matter?

Beffy, Magali - 2009

This paper examines the determinants of the choice of the major when the length of studies is uncertain, by using a framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to anticipate their future earnings. For that purpose, we use French data coming from the 1992 and 1998...

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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies

Collischon, Matthias - 2020

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits

Cahuc, Pierre - 2018

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had significant positive employment effects and no effects on wages. Relying on the quasi-experimental variation in...

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The Production Function for Housing : Evidence from France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2016

We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output … housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the … estimation concerns, we estimate an elasticity of housing production with respect to non-land inputs of about 0.80 …

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Do Hiring Credits Work in Recessions? Evidence from France

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

minimum wage in firms with less than 10 employees in France from December 2008 to December 2009. Using rich administrative …

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