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Guner, Nezih - 2016

We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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Teacher Assessments Versus Standardized Tests : Is Acting 'Girly' an Advantage?

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2017

We study if Italian teachers do apply gender discrimination when judging students. To this aim, we use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the availability of both teachers (non-blind) and standardized test (blind) scores in math and language that Italian students receive during...

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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …

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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania

Bardasi, Elena - 2012

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …

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Institutions, financial development, and small business survival : evidence from European emerging markets

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2020

In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...

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Credit market imperfection, lack of entrepreneurs and capital outflow from a developing economy

Marjit, Sugata; Mishra, Suryaprakash - 2020

This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...

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Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries

Grimm, Michael - 2014

Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment creation and the creation of new firms. Because most...

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Corporate taxation, tax administration and financial development

Mardan, Mohammed - 2019

This paper analyzes corporate tax-related policies and the difference between them in developed and developing countries. I show that the relationship between financial development and corporate income tax rates as well as the tax administrations' effectiveness follows a U-shaped pattern, a...

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Tax competition in developed, emerging and developing regions : same same but different?

Mardan, Mohammed; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2018

This paper analyzes tax competition between countries which differ in their country-specific risk. We show that the outcome of asymmetric tax competition crucially depends on the ability of multinational firms to shift profits. With high costs of profit shifting, higher-risk countries set lower...

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