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When Credit Dries Up : Job Losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel - 2013

.5 percentage points due to weak-bank attachment, representing between 8% and 36% of aggregate job losses …

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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship : Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a 'Fresh Start'

Fossen, Frank M. - 2011

A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" after bankruptcy reduces the individual risk involved in entrepreneurial activity. On the other hand, as risk shifts to creditors who recover less of their credit after a debtor's bankruptcy, lenders may charge higher interest rates or...

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Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?

Bozhinov, Viktor - 2017

In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German...

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How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth : The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Betzer, André - 2011

This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which involved the immediate shutdown of almost half of Germany's nuclear reactors while...

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Risk Attitude and Wage Growth : Replication and Reconstruction

Budría, Santiago - 2009

risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …

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The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany

Chłoń-Domińczak, Agnieszka - 2018

countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …

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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Boeri, Tito - 2019

reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … have similar geographical differences in firm productivity – with the North more productive than the South in Italy and the … West more productive than the East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …

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The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy During the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis

Piazzalunga, Daniela - 2016

The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU …

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