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Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus investment motives using a new panel data set of bilateral...
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adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees …. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at least one employee, indivisibility becomes an important source of … explains around 50% of the stickiness of employment, adjustment costs explain the other 50%. …
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sector employment and wages on the labour market, particularly on private sector wages. Our empirical evidence shows that the … growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover …
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This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted … discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the … scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is …
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develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …
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adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees …. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at least one employee, indivisibility becomes an important source of … explains around 50% of the stickiness of employment, adjustment costs explain the other 50% …
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incorporating time-varying city and individual fixed effects, and analyse how city characteristics (employment density, area, and …
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This paper analyses empirically how cross-border consumption varies across product and services categories and across household characteristics. It focuses on the part of cross-border sales that arise due to work-related cross-border crossings; it analyses the cross-border consumption behaviour...
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Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter households despite their similar incomes. The average...
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Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter households despite their similar incomes. The average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055306