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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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5738
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Oluwarotimi
Owolabi
Sarmistha
Pal
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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to ...
(published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432)
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G21, G30, L14, M20, P21
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5737
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Almas
Heshmati
Ilham
Haouas
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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and ...
(published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 5(1), 48-64. )
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C32, C52, D24, F12, L00
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5736
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
Nancy
Daza
Johanna
Ramos
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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World
This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (5), 464-513)
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C14, D31, J16, O57
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5735
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (2), 469-530)
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D03, J16, N30
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5732
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Nick
Drydakis
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Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?
In the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area Study random sample (2007-08) drawn from 16 multiethnic municipalities in which ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2012, 35 (12), 2054-2074)
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J31, J71, J15, C13, C81
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5731
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Robert
Holzmann
Yann
Pouget
Milan
Vodopivec
Michael
Weber
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Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms
The paper examines severance pay programs around the world by providing the first ever overview of existing programs, examining their historic development, assessing their economic rationale and ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective,Washington, D.C.: The World Bank., 2012)
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J33, J65, K31
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5730
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
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Eight Questions about Brain Drain
High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 107-128)
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F22, O15, J61
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5728
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John
Cawley
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This ...
(published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199)
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I1, I20, I18, D01, H2, D1, D6, D03, D87, D83, J1, Q18, I24
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5727
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Johannes
Abeler
Steffen
Altmann
Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Sebastian
Kube
Matthias
Wibral
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Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with ...
(published in: Analyse & Kritik, 2011, 33(1), 325-347)
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J33, D63, M52, C92, J41
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5726
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Aaron
K.
Chatterji
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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 365-389)
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J26
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