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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?

Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009

This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focus here is on the smaller countries emerging from civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than...

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Why is so Little Spent on Educating the Poor?

Addison, Tony; Rahman, Aminur - eSocialSciences - 2007

If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet, the poor seldom receive a satisfactory education. Too little is spent on primary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528373

Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk insurance in the welfare state : results with OECD data 1978-93

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …

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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781640

Entrepreneurship in a unionised economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781656

Tax neutrality: illusion or reality? : the case of entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); … - 2008

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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499576

Nordic dual income taxation of entrepreneurs

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Kari, Seppo (contributor); … - 2005

The paper shows how entrepreneurial taxes interact with the career choice of individuals, the quality of entrepreneurs, and their effort and investments. It is particularly relevant to differentiate the early effects on start-up enterprises with substantial uncertainty from the tax effects on...

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