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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2014
Africa and Sweden to illustrate that inequality dynamics cannot be understood without embedding economic factors in the …
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How Do CEOS See Their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms
Mullins, William - 2014
Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063090
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893143
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044342
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--
King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224427
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--
King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226949
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Measure for Measure : The Relationship between Measures of Instructional Practice in Middle School English Language Arts and Teachers' Value-Added Scores
Grossman, Pamela - 2015
any, differentiate teachers with high impact on student achievement in middle school English Language Arts from those with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038814
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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country : Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2010
. Language acquisition is an important element in immigrant/native earnings convergence, but most of this convergence is … explained by factors other than language acquisition. These results are confirmed using panel data on wages and knowledge of … with past evidence on language-skill complementarity. Natives and immigrants with high levels of education benefit …
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Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chin, Aimee; Godoy, Ricardo - 2021
Between 1898 and 1948, English was the language of instruction for most post-primary grades in Puerto Rican public … schools. Since 1949, the language of instruction in all grades has been Spanish. We use this policy change to estimate the … effect of English-intensive instruction on the English-language skills of Puerto Ricans. Although naive estimates suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232182
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Ancestry, Language and Culture
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021474