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Cultura postmaterialista y variaciones en el espiritu emprendedor

Pinillos Costa, Maria José - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 1, pp. 37-55

The aim of this paper is to explore whether postmaterialism explains differences in Total entrepreneurial-activity rates across Spanish Autonomous Communities. A distinction is made between potential entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and Established business, as...

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Does activity mix and funding strategy vary across ownership? : evidence from Indian banks

Ghosh, Saibal - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-33

Using data on Indian banks during 1996-2007, the paper examines the impact of bank activity and short-term funding for bank returns and risks. The findings indicate that larger, fast growing financial firms tend to have higher fee income shares. In addition, banks with greater reliance on fee...

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Another economic miracle? : the German labor market and the great recession

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Germany’s labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the … particularly affected by the crisis. Although Germany’s experience is in stark contrast to the United States, we identify and … discuss common challenges at the center of the future jobs debate. -- economic crisis ; Germany ; short-time work …

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The dynamics of the labor markets in Chile

Lima, Víctor O.; Paredes, Ricardo D. - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 2, pp. 163-183

Through flows from 3 states, employment, unemployment and out of the labor force, we analyze the dynamics of labor markets in Chile from 1962-2007. We identify some periods of different labor market regimes and relate them with changes in flexibility. We found that reforms such as that of 1967,...

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Arbeitsplatzverlust der Mutter kann die Entwicklung ihrer Kinder beeinträchtigen

Peter, Frauke H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 33, pp. 3-8

Der Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes ist für Arbeitnehmer meist mit erheblichen negativen Folgen verbunden - dies gilt umso mehr, wenn von den Auswirkungen Familien betroffen sind. Dabei ist nicht nur die finanzielle Situation von Bedeutung: Auch die Entwicklung der Kinder kann beeinflusst werden,...

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Labour market and labour market policies during great recession the case of Estonia

Eamets, Raul - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

The purpose of the paper is to analyse how labour market and labour market institutions reacted during recent crises. In early 1990s Estonia introduced a set of rather unique policy options like currency board as a ground for monetary policy, low taxes, open foreign trade policy, low public...

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Selected issues of personal income taxation harmonization

Wołowiec, Tomasz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 30-44

In the process of furthering EU integration little attention was given to the role of income taxes. Multiple income tax systems exist across the Union and their differentiation negatively impacts the European labor market, investments and savings, inhibiting economic growth. Individual nations...

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Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-26

Using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, the paper examines Russian workers’ fear of unemployment under different economic and labor market conditions during the last 15 years. We employ two alternative measures for this fear. The first one looks at the workers’ fear of losing...

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20

What are the migration policy lessons that can be learned from the Spanish case? Unlike countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or occupational assimilation (relative to their native...

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Labor market conditions and self-employment : a Denmark-Spain comparison

Carrasco, Raquel; Ejrnæs, Mette - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-16

Among the OECD countries, Spain faces one of the highest rates of self-employment and Denmark one of the lowest, being the difference specially relevant among women. These two countries present important differences in their labor market conditions in terms of labor market flexibility,...

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