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While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
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While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018699
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
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Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …
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gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …
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Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
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Indigenous emerging economy (EE) firms are increasingly competing in global markets or against multinational corporations (MNCs) in their home markets. But their institutional context at the national and local levels often suffers from what has been termed “institutional weakness” which is...
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This paper is a theory development to Amit, Brander, and Zott (<CitationRef CitationID="CR1">1998</CitationRef>, Journal of Business Venturing, 13: 441-466) on the nature of venture capital firms. In their paper, the authors argue that venture capital firms exist because they fill a market niche by developing the ability to overcome...</citationref>
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argue that institutions define family business characteristics such as ownership concentration and family management, and … and calls further attention to the embedded nature of family business in institutions. Copyright Springer Science …
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system and institutional characteristics in a specific country. Institutions may also affect the extent of complimentarity …
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