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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

Heckman, James J. - 2014

This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...

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Covid-19 Disruptions Disproportionately Affect Female Academics

Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - 2021

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent countermeasures, such as school closures, the shift to working from home, and social distancing are disrupting economic activity around the world. As with other major economic shocks, there are winners and losers, leading to increased...

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Parental Education and Parental Time with Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2014

Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is thought to be critical to the development of quot;qualityquot; children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals related to the examination of parental...

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The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes

Gumpert, Anna - 2011

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...

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International Business Travel : An Engine of Innovation?

Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2014

While it is well known that managers prefer in-person meetings for negotiating deals and selling their products, face-to-face communication may be particularly important for the transfer of technology because technology is best explained and demonstrated in person. This paper studies the role of...

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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective

Stabile, Mark - 2013

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...

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Forschung und Entwicklung in Staat und Wirtschaft : Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich

Kladroba, Andreas; Belitz, Heike; Lehmann, Tobias - FOM-Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management; Deutsches …; … - 2022 - Stand: Februar 2022

Die internen FuE-Aufwendungen sind in Deutschland im Jahr 2019, also dem letzten Jahr vor der Pandemie um 5.1 Prozent … europäischen Vergleich lag Deutschland knapp unter dem EU-Durchschnitt. Das Jahr 2020 als erstes Pandemie-Jahr bescherte der …

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Unternehmensdynamik in der Wissenswirtschaft in Deutschland 2020 : Gründungen und Schließungen von Unternehmen, Gründungsdynamik in den Bundesländern, Internationaler Vergleich, Wa...

Bersch, Johannes; Berger, Marius; Füner, Lena - ZEW - 2022 - Stand: Februar 2022

Schließungsgeschehen 2020 in Deutschland, den einzelnen Bundesländern, sowie zum Vergleich mit der Unternehmensdynamik ausgewählter anderer … Länder bis zum Jahr 2019. Zudem wird über die Entwicklung des Wagniskapitalmarktes in Deutschland und im internationalen … Vergleich berichtet. Die Analysen zu den Gründungen und Schließungen für Deutschland erstrecken sich über den Zeitraum 2005 …

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Patent applications : structures, trends and recent developments 2021

Neuhäusler, Peter; Rothengatter, Oliver - Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung - 2022 - Stand: Februar 2022

In this study, we contribute to the evaluation of the performance of the German science and research system by analyzing the dynamics of transnational patent filings of German inventors in an international comparison over the past 20 years. Besides country-specific analyses, we further...

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