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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Undoing gender with institutions: Lessons from the German division and reunification

Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

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Math, girls and socialism

Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018

gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …

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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany

Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

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Two sides to the evasion : The Pirate Bay and the interdependencies of evasive entrepreneurship

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Lundblad, Joakim - 2016

Evasive entrepreneurs innovate by circumventing or disrupting existing formal institutional frameworks by evading them. Since such evasions rarely go unnoticed, they usually lead to responses from lawmakers and regulators. We introduce a conceptual model to illustrate and map the interdependence...

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Stock option taxation and venture capital activity : a cross-country comparison

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2016

One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...

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Owner-level taxes and business activity

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2015

In some classes of models, taxes at the owner level are "neutral" and have no effect on firm activity. However, this tax neutrality is sensitive to assumptions and no longer holds in more complex models. We review recent research that incorporates greater complexity in studying the link between...

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Does financial deregulation boost top incomes? : evidence from the Big Bang

Tanndal, Julia; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016

This study estimates the impact of financial deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel econometric method of constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to...

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