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Banking on the Future, Interpreting the Present, Living in the Past. Vietnamnese Banking in the Early 1990s.

Román, Lisa - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1995

Vietnam has opened up towards the rest of the world and made considerable progress towards a market economy. The … central. The paper discusses banking in Vietnam as it appears in eht early 1990s. The analysis is based on statements from … to take advantage of the country's growth potential; Vietnam is banking on the future. But the agents involved must …

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Specialization and Happiness: A U.S.-Japan Comparison

Ono, Hiroshi; Lee, Kristen Schultz - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between specialization and happiness in marriage in the U.S. and Japan. Our findings, based on the General Social Surveys in the U.S. and Japan, indicate both similarities and differences in the determinants of marital happiness in the two countries. In the...

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Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden affter the Crisis of the early 1990s

Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

Abstract: Following a severe contraction in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy accumulated a strong record of output growth coupled with a disappointing performance in the labor market. As of 2005, hours worked per person 20–64 years of age are 10.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one...

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Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size: Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons

Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2004

Guided by a simple theory of task assignment and time allocation, we investigate the long run response to national differences in tax rates on labor income, payrolls and consumption. The theory implies that higher tax rates reduce work time in the market sector, increase the size of the shadow...

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The Fetters of the Sib: Weber Meets Darwin

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007

We analyze the effects of family ties on the incentives for productive effort. A family is modelled as a pair of altruistic siblings. Each sibling exerts effort to produce output under uncertainty and siblings may transfer output to each other. We show that altruism has a non-monotonic effect on...

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Female Career Success: Institutions, Path Dependence and Psychology

Henrekson, Magnus; Dreber, Anna - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2004

This paper identifies the pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important...

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Family ties, incentives and development: a model of coerced altruism

Alger, Ingela; Weibull, Jörgen - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2007

We analyze the effects of family ties on the incentives for production of effort, where family ties are defined as a mixture of true and coerced altruism between family members. We model families as pairs of siblings. Each sibling exerts effort in order to obtain output under uncertainty. A...

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Altruism and Climate

Weibull, Jörgen; Alger, Ingela - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

Recognizing that individualism, or weak family ties, may be favorable to economic development, we ask how family ties interact with climate to determine individual behavior and whether there is reason to believe that the strength of family ties evolves differently in different climates. For this...

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Costs and quality of life associated with osteoporosis related fractures - Results from a Swedish survey

Zethraeus, Niklas; Borgström, Fredrik; Johnell, Olof; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

There are few studies investigating the consequences of osteoporotic (low bone density) fractures in terms of costs and health outcomes. The purpose of this Swedish pilot study is to assess the costs and quality of life related to fractures of the hip, spine, wrist and shoulder and further to...

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Costs and Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis. A Cross-Sectional Observational Study in the UK

Kobelt, Gisela; Lindgren, Peter; Parkin, David; … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

Abstract: We performed a cross-sectional, "bottom-up" observational study of resource consumption and quality of life of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the United Kingdom. Three centers participated in the study. Patients received a questionnaire either by mail or during a clinic...

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