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This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship … have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …
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This paper examines ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands. The study performs a discrete duration model to account for individual and parental background and neighbourhood conditions. Subsequently, the size of explained...
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While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...
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unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
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Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …
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activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …
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manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- Firm survival ; profitability …
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can have positive impacts on establishment financial performance, survival and growth. In contrast to extant studies, it …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …
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The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
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