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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

Levine, Ross - 2018

We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …

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Demographics and Entrepreneurship

Liang, James - 2014

Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …

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Bend It Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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Minorities and Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra - 2005

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desidered over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most...

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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets

Casella, Alessandra - 2012

We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...

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Education policy analysis

Centre for Educational Research and Innovation; OECD - 1997-2006: Paris : OECD - 1997 - 1999; 2001 - 2005/06(2006); damit Ersch. eingest.

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Efficient Transport Taxes and Charges

2001

How do taxes and charges for transport in, for example, France compare with those in Germany? Do hauliers in one country pay more than in the other, and what impact does this have on the profitability of haulage in each country? Is the impact of an increase in tax on diesel the same in each...

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Schools and quality : an international report

Lowe, John (contributor); Istance, David (contributor) - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - 1989

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Human capital investment : an international comparison

Healy, Tom (contributor) - 1998

Ausgehend von der Bedeutung des Humankapitals in modernen Industriegesellschaften, gibt die Studie einen Überblick über Methoden zur Messung des Humankapitals, untersucht und vergleicht den Wert des Humankapitals sowie die Kosten und den Ertrag von Humankapitalinvestitionen in ausgewählten...

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What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model without Capital

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2010

The economics workings of the corporate income tax remain controversial. Harberger's seminal 1962 article viewed the tax as raising the cost of capital used to produce corporate goods. But corporate goods can be and generally are made by non-corporate firms, suggesting that the corporate tax...

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