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Determinants of the acquisition of smaller firms by larger incumbents in high-tech industries: Are they related to innovation and technology sourcing?
Wagner, Marcus - 2007
these issues for three high-tech industries, namely semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology and electronic design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263707
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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival
Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013
The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291889
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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
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 for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293727
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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
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 for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294544
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294907
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Young and innocent international evidence on age effects within grades on school victimization in elementary school
Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2009
This study examines the impact of children's age within grade on school victimization in elementary school. Identification of age effects relies on the instrumental variables approach drawing on official school entry age rules based on children's month of birth. The empirical analysis uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298802
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Orphanhood and Critical Periods in Children's Human Capital Formation: Long-Run Evidence from North-Western Tanzania
Hagen, Jens; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010
. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301531
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Auf der Suche nach der nationalen Innovationskultur Deutschlands - die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD, DDR seit 1950
Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - 2003
Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren zum Teil dramatisch geändert. Der Veränderungsprozess in der Bundesrepublik lässt sich grob in drei Phasen einteilen, die sich zwar überlappen, dennoch im wesentlichen eine...
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Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error
Cawley, John; Choi, Anna - 2015
. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307349
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Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes
Meng, Xin; Yamauchi, Chikako - 2015
migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … and education outcomes. We also find that what the literature has always done (using contemporaneous measure for parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307375