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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....
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Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship
Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous … changes in the cost of external finance shape both the probability of entering entrepreneurship and the characteristics of … wealth and entrepreneurship may be driven by the fact that wealthy individuals with lower ability can start new businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233254
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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns
Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R; Roed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079007
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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009
We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087427
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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events
Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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Lobbying on Entry
Perotti, Enrico C; Volpin, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequality and political accountability undermine entry and financial development. Incumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potential entrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...
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Trade and Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Workers
Oyama, Daisuke; Sato, Yasuhiro; Tabuchi, Takatoshi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
individuals on the formation of entrepreneurship in a two-country occupation choice model. We show that trade opening gives rise …
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Soren Bo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
an entrepreneurial sector, the Paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666436
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Where Do Firms Incorporate?
Becht, Marco; Mayer, Colin; Wagner, Hannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Over the last few years, a series of rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has opened up the European Union to cross-border mobility in incorporation. In this paper we explore how deregulation and the costs of regulation have affected the location decisions of firms. Using a newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666497