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Do multinationals transplant their business model?

Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda; Verdier, Thierry - 2019

What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...

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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

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Moretti, Luca; Mayerl, Martin; Mühlemann, Samuel; … - 2017

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … education and training (VET) system, and a common border, there are some important institutional differences. On average, a … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

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Incentive pay and bank risk-taking : evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss banks

Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - 2014

We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We document an economically significant correlation of...

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Integrating with their feet : cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border

Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2008

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How risky is investment in human capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004

positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …

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The college wealth divide : education and inequality in America, 1956-2016

Bartscher, Alina K.; Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz - 2019

Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and noncollege households in the United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is considerably larger than the college income premium. Over...

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Trade, education, and income inequality

Brückner, Markus; Long, Ngo Van; Vespignani, Joaquin - 2020

education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education. …

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How risky is college investment?

Hendricks, Lutz; Leukhina, Oksana - 2015

This paper is motivated by the fact that nearly half of US college students drop out without earning a bachelor's degree. Its objective is to quantify how much uncertainty college entrants face about their graduation outcomes. To do so, we develop a quantitative model of college choice. The...

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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States

Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most equitable performance for students from different family backgrounds, and Britain … and Germany the least. Equality of opportunities is unrelated to countries mean performance. Quantile regressions show …

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