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Creating jobs through public subsidies : an empirical analysis

Girmaa, Sourafel ; Görg, Holger ; Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (Elsevier Science, 2008)

This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide ...
Hiring incentives and labour force participation in Italy

Cipollone, Piero ; Di Maria, Corrado ; Guelfi, Anita (Bocconi University, 2004-11)

A long-standing economic tradition maintains that labour supply reacts to market tightness; its sensitivity to job quality has received less attention. If firms hire workers with both temporary and open-ended contracts, ...
Optimal corporation tax : an I.O. approach

Colombo, Luca ; Labrecciosa, Paola ; Walsh, Patrick P. (Trinity College Dublin. Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), 2005-10)

Our IO approach links optimal effective corporation tax rates to the nature of sunk costs within industries. Theory predicts that optimal effective corporation tax rates will be negatively related to industry specific sunk ...