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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008

Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...

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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2015

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …

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Intrapreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive

Elert, Niklas; Stenkula, Mikael - 2020

Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation …

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Jobs Incorporated: Incorporation Status and Job Creation

Åstebro, Thomas; Tåg, Joacim - 2015

Recent research has shown that entrepreneurs who start incorporated firms are fundamentally different from entrepreneurs who start sole proprietorships. This difference suggests that incorporation status may distinguish the self-employed with no ambition to hire from entrepreneurs who plan to...

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Does College Education Reduce Small Business Failure?

Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014

We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we fi nd no effect of...

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Reorganization of Firms and Productivity: A Treatment Effects Approach

Carstensen, Vivian - 2002

This paper addresses the question of organization of work and efficient reorganization. An emerging literature is basically concerned with the polar model of high involvement (holistic) vs. traditional (Tayloristic) work organizations. This paper extends in two ways: First, the polar case is...

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The From-Tayloristic-to-Holistic-Organization Model From an Empirical Perspective

Carstensen, Vivian - 2002

The objective of the paper is to confront the conclusions in the seminal papers of Lindbeck and Snower (2001, 2000, 1996) and Snower (1998) with the empirical evidence in the manufacturing sector, thus testing the from-Tayloristic-to-holistic-organization model. Starting from stylized facts as...

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Die organisationelle Revolution: Lassen sich die postulierten Produktivitätseffekte empirisch belegen?

Carstensen, Vivian - 2003

Das Polarmodell zur holistischen Reorganisation nimmt seinen Ausgang bei den stilisierten Fakten der vergangenen zwei Dekaden, die durch massive Umbauprozesse, gerade auch bei der Arbeitsorganisation, gekennzeichnet sind. Der vorliegende Beitrag schließt den Kreis, indem er das Polarmodell...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Compulsory Education and Jack-of-all-trades Entrepreneurs

Douhan, Robin - 2009

Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper follows Lazear's (2005) Jack-of-all-trades hypothesis according to which an individual with a more balanced set of abilities is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the...

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