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Using individual level data from Turkstat Household Labor Force Survey for 2005-2009 period and a variety of parametric and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a wage gap between formal and informal workers and whether...
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close to 5000 companies across 7 service sub-sectors over 20 years and 170 locations. Measures of total factor productivity … to explain individual firm's decisions, based on their levels of productivity, as a function of observable location …
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On November 08, 2016, India took a decisive step towards going "cashless" by suddenly announcing withdrawal of its existing currency notes of two highest denominations, namely, the Rs. 500/= and the Rs. 1000/=. The move, announced with a suddenness that took the entire nation by surprise, had at...
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I study the effect of refugees' protection status on labor market outcomes focusing on a recent cohort of Syrian and Iraqi refugees entering Germany between 2013 and 2016. My empirical analysis exploits a sudden and unpredictable change in the assessment of the Federal Agency responsible for...
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, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood …
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Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship … between productivity, farm typology and farm size. EUROSTAT and European Commission statistics based on FADN survey from the … correlated with labour productivity. Improving the efficiency of production factors should contribute to reducing the disparities …
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We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...
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, which in turn is further related to productivity and thus to the labour market. We argue that this transfers further to …
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the recent literature on the determinants of productivity differentials in a regional context, this paper aims to discuss …
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measured through the firms productivity, profitability and the ability to be innovative. By having this broad definition of …
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