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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to serve for lower wages, and those with higher opportunity costs may be forced to serve regardless, yet little is known about the distribution of this burden. We exploit the Danish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352270
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Early life health and adult earnings: Evidence from a large sample of siblings and twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278426
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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to serve for lower wages, and those with higher opportunity costs may be forced to serve regardless, yet little is known about the distribution of this burden. We exploit the Danish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756237
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Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144859
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2014
capabilities and knowledge, considered as key inputs to foster economic growth. Then, attention will be turned to structural change … and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352253
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the state of the art in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of entrepreneurship will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319587
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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries: A microeconomic perspective
Vivarelli, Marco - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282123
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
capabilities and knowledge, considered as key inputs to foster economic growth. Then, attention will be turned to structural change … and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884241
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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279314