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Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - 2014

the gender pay gap as well as entrepreneurship research on women's entrepreneurship to the novel context of social …

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Lifting the burden : state care of the elderly and labor supply of adult children

Løken, Katrine V.; Lundberg, Shelly; Riise Kolstad, Julie - 2014

In this paper, we use a 1998 reform in the federal funding of local home-based care for the elderly in Norway to …

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Entrepreneurship : origins and returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R.; Røed, Knut; … - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

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How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015

Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...

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Wealth-income ratios in a small, late-industrializing, welfare-state economy : Sweden, 1810 - 2014

Waldenström, Daniel - 2015

This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to smaller countries that were historically backward...

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Trust and the welfare state : the twin peaks curve

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2014

We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to benefit from them without bearing their costs. But civic individuals support generous benefits...

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Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014

This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...

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The welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries

Marx, Ive; Nolan, Brian; Olivera, Javier - 2014

This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...

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Less welfare or fewer foreigners? : immigrant inflows and public opinion towards redistribution and migration policy

Murard, Elie - 2017

I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of attitudes in a joint empirical framework. Using migration data...

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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries

Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018

How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...

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