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Monetary Policy, Growth and Employment in Developing Areas : A Review of the Literature

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2019

sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of output. This survey of the literature on Monetary policy and growth shows …

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Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on Smes' Employment : Evidence from the Great Recession

Cornille, David - 2018

This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial health following the 2008 crisis is used as an...

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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?

Brown, J. David - 2013

Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S....

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Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effect of the Minimum Wage in Small Firms

Danziger, Leif - 2009

The minimum wage rate has been introduced in many countries as a means of alleviating the poverty of the working poor. This paper shows, however, that an imperfectly enforced minimum wage rate causes small firms to face an upward-sloping labor supply schedule. Since this turns these firms into...

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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms : The Case of the Disability Law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2021

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled employees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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Job Creation in a Multi-Sector Labor Market Model for Developing Economies

Basu, Arnab K. - 2016

This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi‐sector model of the labor market for developing countries with three heterogeneities – heterogeneity within self‐employment, heterogeneity in ability, and heterogeneity in age. We revisit an iconic paradox in a class of multi‐sector...

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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Attanasio, Orazio - 2009

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...

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The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries

Lee, Eddy; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI. A general result is that the optimistic Heckscher-Ohlin/Stolper-Samuelson predictions do not apply, that is neither employment creation nor the decrease in within-country...

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Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects : The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms

Gralla, Rafael - 2012

This study examines differences in employment growth between firms with and without works councils by separating introduction effects from potential selectivity effects. Using a difference in differences framework, we show that firms with works councils have higher employment growth before...

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David L. - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … same firm. We then briefly discuss the theories of offshoring, and survey the literature that examines the wage effects of …. Finally we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement. We highlight the recent …

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