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Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …

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Cross-Country Growth Comparison: Theory to Empirics

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth - both empirical and theoretical - distinguish from previous work in three distinct ways:...

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Empirics for Economic Growth and Convergence

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The convergence hypothesis has generated a huge empirical literature: this paper critically reviews some of the earlier key findings, clarifies their implications, and relates them to more recent results. Particular attention is devoted to interpreting convergence empirics. The main findings...

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Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth independent of initial income per capita, the average investment share, initial human capital, trade openness, the...

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Who Gains when Workers Train? Training and Corporate Productivity in a Panel of British Industries

Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

There is a vast empirical literature on the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity. We analyse a panel of British industries between...

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Native Wage Impacts of Foreign Labour: A Random Effects Panel Analysis

Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Natives often fear that competition from foreigners in labour markets will cause wages to fall and unemployment to rise …

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'Actual' versus 'Virtual' Employment in Europe: Is Spain Different?

Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

employment. We pay special attention to Spain, a country that has experienced a high persistent unemployment rate, and show that …

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Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry information on offshoring for the United Kingdom. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low- and medium-skilled individuals negatively. By contrast,...

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Wage and Mobility Effects of Trade and Migration

Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

workers. Using panel data, changes of workplace within a firm and between firms are separated from occupational changes …

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Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The …This Paper presents a theory and an empirical investigation on cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents. The theory … empirical investigation concerns workplace accidents in OECD countries. The analysis confirms that workplace accident rates are …

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