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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

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Culture, entrepreneurship, and growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013

where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …

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Bend it like Beckham : ethnic identity and integration

Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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The optimal size for a minority

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2001

We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each transaction can be carried out cooperatively or through a market mechanism, with cooperative transactions...

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Diasporas and conflict

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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Unilingual versus bilingual education system : a political economy analysis

Ortega, Javier (contributor); … - 2004

We consider an economy with two language groups, where only agents who share a language can produce together. Schooling enhances the productivity of students and may modify their language endowment. Under a unilingual system, the language of the politically dominant group is the only language of...

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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...

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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016

Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …

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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem

Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014

This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...

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Who works for whom? : worker sorting in a model of entrepreneurship with heterogeneous labor markets

Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Hyatt, Henry R.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2016

entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to work, become entrepreneurs, or work in one of the two sectors … entrepreneurship in the United States. …

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