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Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - 2003

Identification of the entrepreneur's economic function has engaged economistsfor more than 200 years. In this paper we address the issue of entrepreneurship intwo distinct ways: a) as it has historically developed within the field of economicsand b) as it develops in the transitional context. In...

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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

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Estimating the Effects of Recent Disability Reforms in The Netherlands

van Sonsbeek, Jan-Maarten; Gradus, Raymond - 2011

In the 1980s and 1990s, disability benefit rates in the Netherlands were among the highest in the world. However, since … the beginning of this century the number of disability cases has dropped remarkably due to some very successful policy … reforms. An administrative dataset of Dutch disability benefit recipients from 1999 until 2010 has been used for analyzing the …

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Effects of Health on Own and Spousal Employment and Income using Acute Hospital Admissions

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; van Kippersluis, Hans; O'Donnell, Owen - 2011

personal income (30% for those entering disability insurance) two years after the shock. There is no subsequent recovery in …

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Interactions Between Financial Incentives and Health in the Early Retirement Decision

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Galama, Titus J.; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely...

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Stone Age Equilibrium

Houba, Harold; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2009

We introduce the notion of a stone age equilibrium to study societies in which property rights are absent, bilateral exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the importance of free disposal of goods which allows for...

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From two heads to one: The short-run effects of the recentralization of political power in rural China

Marie, Olivier; Post, Thomas; Ye, Zihan; Zou, Xiaopeng - 2024

The consequences of granting democratic rights to citizens in otherwise authoritarian regimes has been extensively studied. Much less is know about the implications of retracting these rights when a government wants to recentralize power. Autonomous governance in rural China, introduced in the...

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Out of Africa: What drives the Pressure to emigrate?

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Groenewold, George; Schoorl, … - 2003

This paper evaluates the strength of social and economic forces that affect the pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa' for four distinctly different African countries (Morocco, Egypt, Senegal and Ghana). In general, great expectations about attaining a higher living standard and expected low job...

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Trade and Growth under Limited Liberalization

Bakanova, Marina; de Souza, Lúcio Vinhas - 2002

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR...

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Integrated Monetary and Exchange Rate Frameworks

de Souza, Lúcio Vinhas - 2002

Here the author empirically estimates if the different monetary and exchange rate frameworks observed in the Accession Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics do yield different outcomes in terms of level and variance of a set of nominal and real variables. The author follows and...

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