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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden
Nykvist, Jenny - 2005
between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321582
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Wealth Dynamics in the 1980's and 1990's: Sweden and the U.S.
Klevmarken, Anders; Lupton, Joseph; Stafford, Frank - 2000
wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321756
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Consumption smoothing during unemployment
Kolsrud, Jonas - 2011
kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using … significantly larger liquid wealth than men and young singles. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321386
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Marginal tax rates and tax-favoured pension savings of the self-employed: Evidence from Sweden
Selin, Håkan - 2009
In recent years, the study of how individuals respond to policies that aim at promoting pension savings has emerged as a vital area of economic research. This paper adds to this literature by estimating the tax price elasticity of contributions to tax-favoured pension savings accounts on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321426
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Dissecting saving dynamics: Measuring wealth, precautionary, and credit effects
Carroll, Christopher; Slacalek, Jiri; Sommer, Martin - 2012
actual wealth, with the target determined by credit conditions and uncertainty. An estimated structural version of the model … suggests that increased credit availability accounts for most of the long-term saving decline, while fluctuations in wealth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397785
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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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The Effect of Moving to a Territorial Tax System on Profit Repatriation : Evidence from Japan
Hasegawa, Makoto - 2017
In an increasingly globalized world, the design of international tax systems in terms of the taxation of foreign corporate income has attracted much attention from policy makers and economists alike. In the past, Japan's worldwide tax system taxed foreign source income upon repatriation....
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Immigration and native welfare
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004
We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration surplus (Borjas, 1995,1999), the other identifying a welfare loss due to terms-of-trade effects (Davis & Weinstein, 2002). We decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294552
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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294544
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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity
Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Togler, Benno - 2012
Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...
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