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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: A Panel Data Analysis

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster, Neil - CESifo - 2002

Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...

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Does Venture Capital Investment Spur Employment Growth?

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster, Neil - CESifo - 2003

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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Institutions and Structural Unemployment: Do Capital-Market Imperfections Matter?

Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer - CESifo - 2001

This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...

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Capital Market Institutions and Venture Capital: Do They Affect Unemployment and Labour Demand?

Fehn, Rainer; Fuchs, Thomas - CESifo - 2003

This paper analyses the influence of the capital market on the labour market. Especially the impact of start-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment....

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Incentives and Creativity in Groups

Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …

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How do Incentives Affect Creativity?

Eckartz, Katharina; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012

We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …

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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth

Dennison, Tracy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - CESifo - 2013

. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital investment …

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Development versus Legacy: The Relative Role of Development and Historical Legacies in Achieving Gender Equality

Dilli, Selin; Rijpma, Auke; Carmichael, Sarah - CESifo - 2013

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

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Can Risk-taking Preferences be Modified? Some Experimental Evidence

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - CESifo - 2014

they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …

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