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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …

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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond

Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as "Mincer rates of return". A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter considers the economic interpretation of these analyses and how the availability of repeated cross section and...

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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups

Gelderen, A.M. van; Frese, M.; Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2000

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …

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