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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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1608
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Joachim
Wagner
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"Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb" Nascent Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of ...
(published in: RWI-Mitteilungen, 2003/2004, 54/55 (3-4), 287-303)
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J23
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1606
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Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
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Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data
This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72(4), 860-876)
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J24, H25
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1603
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Opening the Black Box of Intra-Household Decision-Making: Theory and Non-Parametric Empirical Tests of General Collective Consumption Models
We non-parametrically test a general collective consumption model with public consumption and externalities inside the household. We further propose a novel approach to model special cases of the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (6), 1074 - 1104)
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D11, D12, C14
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1602
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René
Böheim
Alfred
M.
Stiglbauer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms
While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 17-19)
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J23, J63, E24, E32
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1601
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia
According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and higher than all other English-speaking nations. This paper questions that ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2005, 38 (3), 307-319)
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E6
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1600
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Tito
Boeri
Herbert
Brücker
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Migration, Co-ordination Failures and EU Enlargement
European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while public opinion is becoming more favourable to migrants and the immobility of ...
(published as 'Why are Europeans so tough on migrants?' in: Economic Policy, 2005, 20 (44), 629-703)
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J61, F16, F2
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1599
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Maurice
Schiff
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Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated
Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, ...
(published in: Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff (eds.), International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain, Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2006)
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D61, D62, F22, H20, H41, I12, J61
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1598
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Nil Demet
Güngör
Aysit
Tansel
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The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation
The study estimates an empirical model of return intentions using a dataset compiled from an internet survey of Turkish professionals and Turkish students residing abroad. In the migration ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Brain Drain from Turkey: Return Intentions of Skilled Migrants' in: International Migration, 2012, 52(5), 208-226)
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F20, F22
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1597
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
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Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index
In many Western countries, the relative weight of people - measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) - has increased substantially in recent years, leading to an increasing incidence of overweight and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4(1), 39-61)
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I1
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1596
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Amit
Kumar
Bhandari
Almas
Heshmati
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Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries
This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The ...
(published in: Global Economic Review, 2005, 32(3), 261-290)
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C23, J23, L60
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13016Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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