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When women's work disappears : marriage and fertility decisions in Peru

Mansour, Hani; Medina, Pamela; Velásquez, Andrea - 2023

This paper studies the gendered labor market and demographic effects of trade liberalization in Peru. To identify these …

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The impact of tax incentives on the economic activity of entrepreneurs

Harju, Jarkko; Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013

This paper studies the effect of Finnish tax reforms in the mid 1990s on the economic activity and tax avoidance decisions of the owners of small businesses. The reforms reduced income tax rates and increased tax planning incentives for small business owners. They applied only to unincorporated...

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Microentrepreneurship in developing countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2020

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...

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Do generous parental leave policies help top female earners?

Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2020

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

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Pension information and women's awareness

Angelici, Marta; Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; … - 2020

We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women’s awareness …

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Gender empowerment, supply-chain linkages and foreign direct investment : evidence on Bangladesh

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi - 2020 - Version of July, 2020

This paper studies foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on gender labor market practices of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of domestic firms that are directly and indirectly related to...

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Preemption, start-up decisions and the firms' capital structure

Moretto, Michele (contributor); … - 2007

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Tax policy and entrepreneurship in the presence of asymmetric information in capital markets

Fuest, Clemens; Huber, Bernd; Tillessen, Philipp - 2003

This paper considers the implications of asymmetric information in capital markets for entrepreneurial entry and tax policy. In many countries, governments subsidize the creation of new firms. One possible justification for these subsidies is that capital markets for the financing of new firms...

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Public economics and startup entrepreneurs

Boadway, Robin W.; Tremblay, Jean-François - 2003

This paper surveys the various forms of market failure that can arise when innovating entrepreneurs consider entering an industry, and outlines possible implications for public policy. Externalities can arise from entrepreneurial activities such as spillover benefits from new innovations and...

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Financing entrepreneurial firms in Europe : facts, issues, and research agenda

Bottazzi, Laura; Da Rin, Marco - 2003

During the latter part of the 1990s the introduction of the euro, the dramatic increase in the supply of venture capital in most EU countries, and the creation of several new equity markets targeted at innovative firms have dramatically transformed the financing prospects of European...

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