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This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate entry cost, there are entry costs caused by regulation. Second, union wage policies raise the opportunity cost of entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of...
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a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …
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to models that include savings and philanthropy …
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attainment independently predict household wealth in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). This relationship is partly explained … gradient in wealth. We show that individuals with lower genetic scores are more prone to reporting "extreme beliefs" (e ….g., reporting that there is a 100% chance of a stock market decline in the near future) and they invest their savings accordingly (e …
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Is affluence a good thing? The book The Challenge of Affluence by Avner Offer (2006) argues that economic prosperity weakens self-control and undermines human well-being. Consistent with a pessimistic view, we show that psychological distress has been rising through time in modern Great Britain....
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focus of the paper is on transitional dynamics under different initial wealth levels. Whether an initially small business … toward the informal sector even though the initial wealth level is high. Lowering taxes on formal activity joined with strict …
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. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth distribution among entrepreneurs. We introduce … levels and the dispersion of wealth among entrepreneurs. Long owner hours incentivize poor, highly productive individuals to … be owners and help the most productive owners to accumulate large quantities of wealth. On net, owners working long hours …
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