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Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
Cardinale, Mirko; Orszag, Mike - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt of the employer and hence should be taken into account by the market in its assessments of risk. Using a hand collected dataset of accounting data from Italy and Austria we find...
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people are more likely to invest in the stock market....
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The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas; Davis, Rhona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762073
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
Prasad, Eswar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on … financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has … the key challenge now facing India's policymakers on this front. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703471
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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric; Salinger, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703711
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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762143
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Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763441
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Earnings Inequality in India: Has the Rise of Caste and Religion Based Politics in India Had an Impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant intercaste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763613
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School Attendance of Children and the Work of Mothers: A Joint Multilevel Model for India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor …
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