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Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
One suggested hypothesis for the dramatic rise in household borrowing that preceded the financial crisis is that low-income households increased their demand for credit to finance higher consumption expenditures in order to "keep up" with higherincome households. Using household level data on...
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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822124
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Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours: An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy among Adolescents
Duarte, Rosa; Escario, José-Julián; Molina, José-Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762355
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Well-Being and Ill-Being: A Bivariate Panel Data Analysis
Oguzoglu, Umut; Lee, Wang-Sheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to estimate in a multivariate context the factors associated with wellbeing and ill-being without making the assumptions that they are opposite ends of the same continuum, and that the factors uniformly affect both well-being and ill-being. Using the first five waves of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703551
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One or Many Knowledge Production Functions? Mapping Innovative Activity Using Microdata
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
subsample of 2,949 firms from the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). A bivariate probit analysis framework is … innovation intensity. This paper also discusses an alternative test procedure that permits an extension of Cragg’s test in the … analysis of survey data with weighted observations. Results show that R&D is strictly linked to product innovation, while TA is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703589
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia
Junankar, P. N.; Mahuteau, Stéphane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703079
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Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors
Bruhin, Adrian; Götte, Lorenz; Haenni, Simon; Jiang, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy interventions. We conducted a large-scale intervention study among dyads of blood donors to...
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Perspectives on the Early Retirement Decisions of Farming Couples
Väre, Minna; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In the past decade, the European agricultural sector has undergone rapid structural change. Part of that change is manifested in extended early retirement plans. As pensions play a crucial role in determining the characteristics the change, it is important to establish the factors determining...
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Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Bozio, Antoine; Costa Dias, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
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How Selective Are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Hirsch, Boris; Zwick, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
cuts increase wage dispersion among peers rather than narrowing it. Notably, the same selectivity pattern shows up when …
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