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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

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

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In support of the supporters? : Do social forces shape decisions of the impartial?

Dohmen, Thomas J. - 2003

Analyzing the neutrality of referees during nine German premier league (1. Bundesliga) soccer seasons, this paper documents evidence that social forces influence agents' preferences and decisions. Those, who are appointed to be impartial, tend to favor the home team as they systematically award...

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Performance pay, group selection and group performance

Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - 2007

Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose work effort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for both tasks as offered...

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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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Short-run and long-term effects of childbirth on mothers' employment and working hours across institutional regimes: an empirical analysis based on the European Community Household...

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …

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Intergenerational mobility and schooling decisions in Germany and Italy: the impact of secondary school tracks

Checchi, Daniele; Flabbi, Luca - 2007

, Italy and Germany, to see how the common feature of separate tracks at Secondary School level may produce different impacts …, where the aspiration to go to college is affected not only by the school type but also (in the case of Italy only) by … parental education. We then move to country-specific data sets (ISTAT 2001 for Italy and GSOEP 2001 and 2002 for Germany) to …

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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007

marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …

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