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Large Panels with Common Factors andSpatial Correlations

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Tosetti, Elisa - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper considers the statistical analysis of large panel data sets where even afterconditioning on common observed effects the cross section units might remain dependentlydistributed. This could arise when the cross section units are subject to unobserved commoneffects and/or if there are...

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Gender Based Taxation and the Division ofFamily Chores

Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

(married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive... …

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On Gender Gaps and Self-fulfilling Expectations : Theory, Policies and Some Empirical Evidence

Rica, Sara de la; Dolado, Juan José; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

most of the related literature, our model fully relies on statistical discrimination. If firms believe that women will quit …

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Becoming an Entrepreneur

Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non …

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Family Migration : A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?

Konseiga, Adama - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings...

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Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market IncentiveEffects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by nowcomplete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the systemof support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemescompared to those found in many...

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Family Bargaining and Taxes:A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation

Pollak, Robert A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does joint taxation disadvantage women? To answer that question, this paper begins byreviewing unitary and bargaining …

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- andfinancial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms … of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance ofsmall-firm ownership in some industries as … entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to …

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Team Incentives:Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-basedincentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affectproductivity by changing both workers’ effort and team composition. We present evidencefrom a field experiment...

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