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In brief...'Smart and illicit': the making of a successful entrepreneur
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
these are desirable activities or that parents should help their kids get involved in them to encourage entrepreneurship …
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Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay?
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
combination of "smarts" and "aggressive/illicit/risk-taking" tendencies as a youth accounts for both entry into entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690205
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Entrepreneurship: Can the Jack-of-All-Trades Attitude be Aquired?
Silva, Olmo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
suffers from the lack of consensus on the most crucial question: what makes anentrepreneur? A recent theory developed by … entrepreneur. This suggests that, if the JAT Attitude mattersfor entrepreneurship, it is an innate and time-invariant individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016700
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Dynemp: A Stata® Routine for Distributed Micro-data Analysis of Business Dynamics
Criscuolo, Chiara; Gal, Peter N.; Menon, Carlo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
This paper introduces a new Stata® command, dynemp, which implements a distributed micro-data analysis of business and employment dynamics and firm demographics. The data source it requires are business registers or comparable firm- or establishment- level longitudinal databases which cover the...
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The Dynamics of Employment Growth: New Evidence from 18 Countries
Criscuolo, Chiara; Gal, Peter N.; Menon, Carlo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Motivated by the on-going interest of policy makers in the sources of job creation, this paper presents results from a new OECD project on the dynamics of employment (DynEmp) based on an innovative methodology using firm-level data (i.e. national business registers or similar sources). It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780795
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Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology and Competition: Evidence from France
Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries are narrowly defined. So there is a significant opportunity for the least productive firms to catch up to the most productive. The formers' convergence could therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256474
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages and Investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investmentdecisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wageinequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. Thesedifferent trends are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670541
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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?
Estrin, Saul; Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Reynolds, Paul; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
including both developed and developing economies, 2000‐2009. The theory yields ambiguous predictions about the relationship … between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775216
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The Macroeconomic Role of Unemployment Compensation
Blumkin, Tomer; Hadar, Yossi; Yashiv, Eran - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
The standard motivation for unemployment compensation is consumption smoothing and most papers in the literature have analyzed trade-offs involving consumption smoothing and moral hazard. This paper shows how such policy can increase output by enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the...
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