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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for …
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Banking (Conservatively) With Optimists
Manove, Michael; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
In the course of ordinary business, commercial banks frequently encounter entrepreneurs seeking loans for the purpose … of financing new or continuing projects. These entrepreneurs are frequently unrealistic, their perception having been … relationship between banks and possible optimistic entrepreneurs. We examine this capital market from the stand-point of economic …
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Growing like China
Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
credit markets. Due to the financial imperfections, high-productivity firms - which are run by entrepreneurs - must be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123794
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We construct a model where an entrepreneur could either innovate for entry or for sale. It is shown that increased product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased competition reduces entrants' and acquirers' profits in a...
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The Taxation of Entrepreneurial Income in a Transition Economy: Issues Raised by Experience in Poland
MEP, Grabowski; Maciej, Dariusz; Smith, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …
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Perceived Constraints for Dutch Unemployment Policy
Keuzenkamp, Hugo; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
future developments of the Dutch economy, and surveys the political-economic debate in the Netherlands. The focus is on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136745
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Savings, Investment, Government Finance and the Current Account: The Dutch Experience
Keuzenkamp, Hugo; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
development of the Dutch economy pinpointed and the political-economic debate in the Netherlands surveyed. Ten rules for sound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281321
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Gender Gaps in Completed Fertility
Field, Erica; Molitor, Vera; Tertilt, Michèle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we use survey data from several recent waves of the...
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
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Why Don't Women Patent?
Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; Hunt, Jennifer; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...
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