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Employment and hours appear far more cyclical than dictated by the behavior of productivity and consumption. This puzzle has been called “the labor wedge” — a cyclical intratemporal wedge between the marginal product of labor and the marginal rate of substitution of consumption for...
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This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurs' personal income tax situations on their use of labor. We analyze the income tax returns of a large number of sole proprietors before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and determine how the substantial reductions in marginal tax rates...
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A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans. However, the impact of immigration on natives in self-employment has not been examined, despite the over-representation of immigrants in that sector. We first present a new...
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This article presents a review of the literature that focuses on the role played by information asymmetry in the management of innovation. Results are organised in two categories. On the one hand, information asymmetry is considered as a major source of market failures because it affects the...
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The paper has twofold goals. The paper reviews the culture of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competencies in … involvement of universities in the field of entrepreneurship that is shaped in the form of Research and Development as well as … offering entrepreneurship academic programs. This comes in line with the emerging trend of offering courses and programs at …
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This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human...
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entrepreneurship, and use it for comparative statics and welfare analysis. One welfare conclusion is that intermediaries may have …
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soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …
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Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …
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an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
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