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Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?
Grimm, Michael; Hartwig, Renate; Lay, Jann - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment … patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime' comply with sharing norms, are insured but reduce investment in their … firm, whereas entrepreneurs in the 'growth regime' are not insured but take undistorted investment decisions. The choice of …
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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
banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822124
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The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising about 4,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990943
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The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...
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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...
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Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and...
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Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646296
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Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Skinner, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592862
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How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?
Frazis, Harley; Stewart, Jay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction is analytically important. We examine the conditions necessary to make inferences about the time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693835
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Reexamining the Conditional Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Campos, Nauro F - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670820