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Paying for the selected son : sex imbalance and marriage payments in China
Xu, Yuanwei - 2021
This paper shows that the rising male surplus has strengthened marriage distortions in China by causing an increase in …
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#EleNão : economic crisis, the political gender gap, and the election of Bolsonaro
Barros, Laura; Santos Silva, Manuel - 2020 - This version: March 1, 2020
exacerbates masculine stereotypes, as a way of compensating for the loss in economic status. Women, on the other hand, when …
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How important are plant and regional characteristics for labor demand? : plant-level evidence for Germany
Brixy, Udo; Fuchs, Michaela - 2010
Empirical research on agglomeration and regional economic growth puts high emphasis on the impact of specialization, diversity, and competition on regional employment dynamics (Glaeser et al. 1992, Henderson et al. 1995, Blien et al. 2006, Fuchs 2009). However, Beugelsdijk (2006) and Raspe/van...
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Investment tax credits and the response of firms
Lerche, Adrian - 2019
This paper studies the effects of investment tax credits on firms’ input choices by exploitinga sudden shift in the tax credit rate by firm size for manufacturing firms in Germany in 1999. I find that more generous tax credits lead to a significant increase in both investment and employment,...
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Trouble in paradise : how women's intra-household bargaining power affects marital stability
Dayanti, Miryana Vinka; Dartanto, Teguh - In: Competition and cooperation in economics and business : …, (pp. 287-294). 2018
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The Finnish payroll tax cut experiment revisited, or where did the money go?
Korkeamäki, Ossi - 2011
In this paper I evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll-taxes by 3-6 percentage points of the firm's wage sum in Northern and Eastern Finland. I estimate the effect of the payroll-tax reduction on firms' employment, wage sum and profits, and on workers hourly pay and...
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Do informational nudges alter firms' hiring behavior of older workers?
Homrighausen, Pia; Lang, Julia - 2019
This paper analyses a local marketing campaign that provided information about unproven age-re-lated stereotypes and the value of older workers in Germany. The campaign was designed to increase the hiring rate of older workers. Using comprehensive register data, we find that the information...
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Matching higher education offer with labour market needs till 2020 : the case of Lodzkie region
Arendt, Lukasz; Rzenca, Agnieszka - 2014
Transformation to post-industrial or knowledge-based economies causes changes in the structure of labour markets with growing demand on highly-qualified workforce. In XXI century human capital has become one of the most important production factors determining competitiveness and innovativeness...
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped also the attitude toward working women. Against the background … effect on attitudes is not visible in actual behaviour. Another novel finding is that social acceptance of working women … German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …
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