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Male vs. female business owners: Are there differences in investment behavior?
Pelger, Ines - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a representative survey of German SMEs for the period from 2003 to 2009. We find...
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Gender, Investment Financing and Credit Constraints
Pelger, Ines - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit denial rates in Germany. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a representative survey of German SMEs for the period from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399601
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Natural resource rents, fiscal policy and economic growth in Algeria
HAMDI, Helmi; SBIA, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
, government revenues and economic growth in Algeria during the period 1980-2011. The empirical results reveal a bidirectional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108873
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Secteur et emploi informels en Algérie : définitions, mesures et méthodes d’estimation
Hammouda, Nacer-Eddine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The informal sector is one of the most problematical of the economical information system in general and on the labor market in particular. By its definition and nature, this sector is quantifiable with difficulty ; yet statiscally, some elements of information can be built on the informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110460
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Segmentation of the labor market in Algeria and the determination of wages in agriculture, formal and informal sector
Hammouda, Nacer-Eddine; Souag, ali - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Households survey Conducted by the National Office for Statistics in 2000 (Algeria). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113346
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Le système algérien de protection sociale : entre Bismarckien et Beveridgien
Hammouda, Nacer-Eddine; Merouani, Walid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Social security systems are often treated according to their epistemology. The bismarckian and beverdgian systems could be the origin of all social protection systems. The firs was created by Bismark at 1883 in Germany, it was based on the insurance principal. The beverigian system was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257838
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Education does not seem to improve health: Evidence from Indonesia
Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … find the longer school year increases educational attainment and wages, but I do not find evidence that education improves … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210848
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Transfers within a three generations family: when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker’s rotten kids theorem holds for the … single period game in that informal aid is set according to an efficient rule. However, education is distorted upwards. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210872
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Air pollution, foetal mortality, and long-term health: Evidence from the Great London Smog
Ball, Alastair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212579
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957