Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,088
Cover Image
The impact of cultural diversity on innovation: Evidence from Dutch firm-level data
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280683
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268364
Cover Image
Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269141
Cover Image
Life satisfaction
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van Soest, Arthur - 2009
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both … determinant of global life satisfaction, it is more important in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. Indeed life satisfaction varies … substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276687
Cover Image
Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: Is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282604
Cover Image
The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262427
Cover Image
The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267640
Cover Image
Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269450
Cover Image
The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
Cover Image
Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276243