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Allen, W. David; Curington, William Peter - In: Journal of labor research 35 (2014) 2, pp. 143-161

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Differences in self-employment duration by year of entry & pre-entry wage-sector attachment

Luque, Adela; Jones, Maggie R. - In: Journal of labor research 40 (2019) 1, pp. 24-57

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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014

Guzman, Jorge - 2016

entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …

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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their workers to answer this question. Our analysis uses a brand-new dataset, spanning the period from 1993 to 2014, where we merge: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social...

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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Azoulay, Pierre - 2018

Many observers, and many investors, believe that young people are especially likely to produce the most successful new firms. We use administrative data at the U.S. Census Bureau to study the ages of founders of growth-oriented start-ups in the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful...

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Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation : Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2016

Managerial delegation is essential for firm growth. While firms in poor countries often shun outside managers and instead recruit among family members, the pattern is quite the opposite for firms in rich countries. In this paper, we ask whether these differences in managerial delegation have...

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Are self-employment training programs effective? : evidence from Project GATE

Michaelides, Marios; Benus, Jacob - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 5, pp. 695-705

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Return migration and self-employment : evidence from Mexican migrants

Orozco-Aleman, Sandra; Gonzalez-Lozano, Heriberto - In: Journal of labor research 42 (2021) 2, pp. 148-183

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From Population Growth to Firm Demographics : Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share

Hopenhayn, Hugo - 2018

The US economy has undergone a number of puzzling changes in recent decades. Large firms now account for a greater share of economic activity, new firms are being created at a slower rate, and workers are getting paid a smaller share of GDP. This paper shows that changes in population growth...

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Effects of FDI on entrepreneurship : evidence from Right-to-Work and non-Right-to-Work states

Eren, Ozkan; Onda, Masayuki; Unel, Bulent - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 58 (2019), pp. 98-109

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