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This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and … process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by …
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This paper estimates the effect of Wal-Mart expansion on retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental …-Mart entry increases retail employment by 100 jobs in the year of entry. Half of this gain disappears over the next five years as … employment declines by approximately 20 jobs due to Wal-Mart's vertical integration. No spillover effect is detected in retail …
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along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … conditions at the time of labour market entry have adverse impacts on both labour force participation and employment. With the …
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along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … conditions at the time of labour market entry have adverse impacts on both labour force participation and employment. With the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408360
present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland …
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Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 per cent. The paper shows that the...
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In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance in the United States? This paper attempts to...
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Aggregate productivity growth can be decomposed into growth within establishments, between establishments, and the impact of entering and exiting establishments. We demonstrate that such a productivity decomposition formula can also be used for studying intraestablishment restructuring through...
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We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...
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