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Income taxation and household size : would French family splitting make German families better off?

Baclet, Alexandre (contributor); Dell, Fabien (contributor); … - 2005

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

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Owners, external managers, and industrial relations in German establishments

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus - 2019

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel in Germany and estimating a panel probit model with fixed …

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CEO stress, aging, and death

Borgschulte, Mark; Guenzel, Marius; Liu, Canyao; … - 2023

We assess the long-term effects of managerial stress on aging and mortality. First, we show that exposure to industry distress shocks during the Great Recession produces visible signs of aging in CEOs. Applying neural-network based machine-learning techniques to pre- and post-distress pictures,...

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Health risk factors among the older European populations : personal and country effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - 2014

2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … measures. They include: share of smokers on a daily/regular basis; alcohol consumption (per-capita liters per year); share of …

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On the origins of risk-taking

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015

and their adoptive children becomes very weak. We find similar results when we study the share of financial wealth that is …

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The coming wave : where do emerging market investors put their money?

Karolyi, G. Andrew; Ng, David Tat-chee; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2015

We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors systematically over- and under-weight their holdings in some target countries. These abnormal foreign...

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Footsie, yeah! : share prices and worker wellbeing

Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew E.; Green, Colin - 2021

to establish the relationship between share prices on the one hand and worker wellbeing on the other. First, we use data … on share price movements and employee stock holding in a single corporation and provide suggestive evidence that an … increase in the firm's stock price increases the wellbeing of those who belong to its employee share purchase plan (ESPP), and …

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Excess leverage and productivity growth in emerging economies : is there a threshold effect?

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Driffield, Nigel L.; Pal, Sarmistha; … - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship in that moderate leverage could boost growth while very high...

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Families, human capital, and small business : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the confidential and restrictedaccess Characteristics...

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How credit constrained are family-owned SMEs in Arab countries?

Gourène, Grakolet Arnold Zamereith; Brixiova, Zuzana; … - 2024

Family-owned firms account for majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Arab countries, but evidence on the impact of this ownership type on access to credit in the region is scarce. Yet the issue is key for understanding barriers to the emergence of dynamic private sector and...

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