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TESTING THE ENDOGENOUS GROWTH MODEL:PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, TAXATION AND GROWTHOVER THE LONG-RUN
Bleaney, Michael F.; Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics; … - 2000
Endogenous growth models, such as Barro (1990), predict that governmentexpenditure and taxation will have both temporary and permanent effects on growth.We test this prediction using panels of annual and period-averaged data for OECDcountries during 1970-95, isolating long-run from short-run...
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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey
Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals for the covered provinces...
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Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
Ahsan, Ahmad; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor … laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection … or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce registered sector employment and output. These laws do no seem to …
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