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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2015

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

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Why is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2004

A relatively high labor-intensity in government-run entities need not imply slack in their organization. Rather, it is a rational reaction to various forms of wage tax advantage that the public sector has over private firms. Even though an unequal tax treatment of public and private sectors...

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Time Consistency and Bureaucratic Budget Competition

Kessing, Sebastian; Konrad, Kai A. - CESifo - 2006

High employment protection in the public sector results in strategic over-employment if government divisions compete for budgets in a dynamic setting. Bureaucrats who are interested in maximising their divisions’ output employ excess labor, since this induces the sponsor to provide...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander; … - CESifo - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - CESifo - 2013

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …

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Employee Spinouts, Social Networks, and Family Firms

Rauch, James E. - CESifo - 2013

spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …

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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - CESifo - 2013

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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