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The Globalization Paradox Revisited
Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2014
According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital mobility in particular induces tax competition, thus putting downward pressure on capital taxes. However, while capital mobility introduces the inefficiency of tax competition, it...
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Foreign Language Learning : An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor A. - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … covers 193 countries and 13 important languages. Four factors significantly explain learning, two of which affect the broad …
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FDI and Taxation : A Meta-Study
Feld, Lars P. - 2009
Despite the continuing political interest in the usefulness of tax competition and tax coordination as well as the wealth of theoretical analyses, it still remains open whether or when tax competition is harmful. Moreover, the influence of tax differentials on multinationals' decisions is still...
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Green Havens and Pollution Havens
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...
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The Gender Imbalance in Participation in Canadian Universities (1977-2005)
Christofides, Louis N. - 2009
More females than males have been attending Canadian universities over the past decade and this gender imbalance in university participation has been increasing. We use the Linear Probability and Logit models to investigate the determinants of attending university and explore the reasons for the...
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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Luther and the Girls : Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2008
Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show that a larger share of Protestants decreased the...
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Gender and Competition : Evidence from Academic Promotions in France
Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; … - 2021
Differences in promotion across genders are still prevalent in many occupations. Recent work based on experimental evidence indicates that women participate less in or exert lower effort during contests. We exploit the unique features of the promotion system for French academics to look at...
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap : Evidence from Italian Provinces
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2021
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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Gender and Racial Biases : Evidence from Child Adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2021
This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
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