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Do government subsidies stimulate training expenditure? : Microeconometric evidence from plant level data

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dc.creator Görg, Holger
dc.creator Strobl, Eric
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:18:29Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:18:29Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier IZA discussion papers Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn 1606
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/3613
dc.identifier ppn:487479130
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/3613
dc.description This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We pay particular attention to the potential problems in such an evaluation study, namely selectivity and endogeneity, by first identifying a valid counterfactual for grant receiving plants via a matching estimator and then employing a difference-in-differences technique on this matched sample. Our results show that there are differences in causal effects between domestic and foreign owned plants. For the former we find clear evidence that grant receipt stimulates private expenditure, while there are no statistically significant effects for foreign-owned plants based in Ireland.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn
dc.relation Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 1606
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Subvention
dc.subject Betriebliche Bildungsarbeit
dc.subject Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse
dc.subject Irland
dc.title Do government subsidies stimulate training expenditure? : Microeconometric evidence from plant level data
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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