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Help in a Foreign Land : Internationalized Banks and Firms' Export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
’s domestic bank by an internationalized banking group. Our results show that, after the acquisition, firms have a significantly … higher probability of starting export in countries where the consolidated bank has a foreign branch, which proxies for the … mainly reduce firms’ fixed entry costs in a foreign market. The analysis also shows that other channels, such as bank credit …
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The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use : The Mediating Role of Household Composition
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2018
In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912243
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Old‐Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends : Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries
Aliaj, Arjeta - 2016
For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996523
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035179
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002 and the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002, we investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the labour market position of Turkish immigrants. We use regression techniques to correct for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051625
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
On the basis of three micro datasets, the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002, the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002 and the Dutch Labour Force Survey 2002, we investigate the labour market position of Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051634
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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the 'Dying Seconds' of International Football Matches
van Ours, Jan C. - 2010
This paper investigates whether there are country-specific characteristics in goal-scoring in the final stage of important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy...
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067086
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms : The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2021
Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional pre-conditions of effective supply and transfer of policy advice with particular respect to the field of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318135