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The emergence of large shareholders in mass privatized firms : evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic
Grosfeld, Irena; Hoshi, Iraj - 2004
Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that...
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The Long-Term Impact of Children's Disabilities on Families
Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn; Steingrimsdottir, Herdis - 2019
Childhood disability is a major health shock that affects parents early in their working life. We estimate its impact on … identify the causal effect of childhood disability we use an event study approach, where we control for a rich set of pre … with a disability has strong negative impact on mothers’ earnings. The effect is persistent and the wage penalty appears to …
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Employment and substitution effects of raising the statutory eligibility age in France
Rabaté, Simon; Rochut, Julie - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891139
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What drives prescription opioid abuse? : evidence from migration
Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Williams, Heidi - 2018
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Disability employment quotas : effects of laws and nudges
Duryea, Suzanne; Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Smith, Raimundo - 2024
monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-level difference-in-difference results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536294
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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022
We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … status) has gone through a significant transformation since 2013 with the gradual replacement of the disability living …
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Disability and morbidity among US birth cohorts, 1998 - 2018 : a multidimensional test of dynamic equilibrium theory
Shen, Tianyu; Payne, Collin - 2023
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"Relabelling" of individual early retirement pension in Finland : application and behavioural responses using Finnish register data
Kanabar, Ricky; Nivalainen, Satu; Järnefelt, Noora - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461431
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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010
In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...
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The interaction of economic and political inequality in Latin America
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Robinson, James A.; Torres, Santiago - 2024
We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet of democratization - the entry of new politicians. We show that initial levels of inequality...
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