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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
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The long awaited reform of the German Works Constitution Act
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002
of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405872
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Active labor market policy in Germany : is there a successful policy strategy?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …
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Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Germany : a dynamic panel approach using regional data
Hujer, Reinhard; Blien, Uwe; Caliendo, Marco; Zeiss, … - 2002
estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … accounts especially for the inherent simultaneity problem of ALMP. For West Germany we find positive effects of vocational … training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414213
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Household labor supply effects of low-wage subsidies in Germany
Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On the basis of the estimated labor supply...
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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment
Arni, Patrick - 2015
Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different...
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Bias in returns to tenure when firm wages and employment comove : a quantitative assessment and solution
Martins, Pedro S.; Snell, Andy; Stüber, Heiko; Thomas, … - 2016
eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …
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Does the estimation of the propensity score by machine learning improve matching estimation? : the case of Germany's programmes for long term unemployed
Goller, Daniel; Lechner, Michael; Moczall, Andreas; … - 2019
Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation. This work investigates if machine learning algorithms for estimating the propensity score lead to more credible estimation of average treatment effects on the treated using a...
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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