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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? : The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2004

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs … have lower incomes. We also analyze those who changed careers. Those with higher level of education are more likely to …

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...

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Social security incentives, human capital investment and mobility of labor

Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

country with flat-rate benefits may reduce their investment in education. With suitably planned transfers between the two …

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Student flows and migration: an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...

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The expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a … motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the … future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the …

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Self-selection and earnings of emigrants from a welfare state

Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - 2009

Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...

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International Migration of Couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

. College education of either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most …

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International migration of couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

. College education of either partner makes couples more, and having children makes couples less mobile. Power couples are most …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387783

Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State

Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Firms' ethics, consumer boycotts, and signalling

Glazer, Amihai (contributor); Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor) - 2008

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers....

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