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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7548 Maurice Kugler
Oren Levintal
Hillel Rapoport
Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In ...
(Published in: World Bank Economic Review, 32, 1, 2018: 148–162 )
F21, F22, O1
7547 Wim Naudé
José Ernesto Amorós
Oscar Cristi
'Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?' The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries
We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing ...
(published as 'Should We Romanticize Penniless Entrepreneurs?: Startups and Human Wellbeing across Countries' in: Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012, 1, 15914)
I31, M13, O50
7546 David N.F. Bell
Alasdair C. Rutherford
Older Workers and Working Time
Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013, 1-2, 28-34)
J01, J11, J21, J22, J23, J38, J64
7545 Katharina Janke
Carol Propper
Michael A. Shields
Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?
Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals' participation in their local area through ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 47, 34-49.)
I12, I18, R23
7543 Wim Naudé
Adam Szirmai
Alejandro Lavopa
Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing ...
(published as 'Industrialisation and Technological Change in the BRICS: The Role of Foreign and Domestic Investment' in: W. Naudé, A. Szirmai, and N. Haraguch (eds.), Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015)
F23, L52, L53, O25, O40, O33, O34
7542 Daniel Fackler
Claus Schnabel
Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, Survival, and the Role of their Parents', in: Small Business Economics, 2016, 46 (1), 93-114 ( co-authored by Alexandra Schmucker,))
L2, D22, M13, C41
7540 Eric Bartelsman
Sabien Dobbelaere
Bettina Peters
Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2015, 24(5), 875-949)
C10, I20, O14, O30
7538 Erdal Tekin
Chandler McClellan
Karen Jean Minyard
Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th ...
(published as 'Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 16, 1017 - 1026)
E32, I00, I10, I12, I14, I15
7537 Tyas Prevoo
Bas ter Weel
The Importance of Early Conscientiousness for Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the British Cohort Study
This research estimates models of the importance of conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes. We use measures of conscientiousness at age 16 to explain adult wages and other outcomes, such as ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (4), 918-948)
J24
7536 Xiaoyan Lei
James P. Smith
Xiaoting Sun
Yaohui Zhao
Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS
In this paper, we model gender differences in cognitive ability in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey ...
(published as 'Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time: Evidence from CHARLS' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 46-55)
H10
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