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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...

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Corporate Governance - Legal Fiction or Economic Reality?

Drobetz, Wolfgang - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2003

In the past few years, corporate governance has become a popular area of discussionin continental Europe. Having been a …

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Family control and financing decisions

Crocci, Ettore; Doukas, John A.; Gonenc, Halit - 2010

Empirical studies examining the financing decisions of the firm focus exclusively on publicly held firms, not family-controlled firms despite their economic importance. This study investigates the external financing behavior of family-controlled firms, using a comprehensive sample of 777 large...

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The effect of financial structure on crises: universal banking in interwar Europe

Adalet, Müge - 2009

This paper examines the link between banking structure and financial fragility across Europe during the 1920s and 1930s …

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Low-Wage Import Competition, Inflationary Pressure, and Industry Dynamics in Europe

Auer, Raphael; Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2011

What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper … examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer … contrast, no effect is present for import competition from low-wage countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Decomposing the …

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …

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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

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Job Quality and Employment of Older People in Europe

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Schnalzenberger, Mario; … - 2011

We study the relationship between job quality and retirement using panel data for European countries (SHARE). While previous studies looked at the impact of bad working conditions on retirement intentions, we can use the panel dimension to study actual retirement as well as other pathways out of...

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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-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...

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