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Health Risk Factors among the Older European Populations: Personal and Country Effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol … evidence of the significant effects of the three behavioral risk factors on the individual's SAHS, beyond and above effects of …

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Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy

Kalwij, Adriaan; Vermeulen, Frederic - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The empirical analysis shows that …

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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper presents theory and evidence showing that institutional reforms in developing countries can effectively expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to...

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Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...

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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms: New Evidence

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in transition economies. This paper is the first attempt to fill this important gap in the literature. The...

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CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on CEO turnover, ownership structure and board characteristics, we estimate Logit models of CEO turnover. We find consistently for all performance measures including both stock...

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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China’s listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive compensation and ownership structure, we find for...

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Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other …

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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

volatile and its share in disposable income has risen in recent years. Moreover, capital income makes a disproportionately high … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank

Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

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