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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...

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The Underground Economy in a Matching Model of Endogenous Growth

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of underground economy, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and...

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Why Did Self-Employment Increase So Strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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Rationality of Self-Employment: Do Female and Male Entrepreneurs Differ?

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour market, or if those activities reflect new modes of labour market integration revealing new opportunities and markets, which are especially due in wide parts to the service and...

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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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The Contribution of Business Ownership in Bringing Down Unemployment in Japan

Stel, Andre van; Baljeu, Lendert; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Andre van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a … production function model. This paper explains what is meant by entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic … output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for …

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Does Entrepreneurship create enough Jobs in Europe? A Note

Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

"Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: The Case of Portugal" by R. Baptista, V. Escarta and P. Madruga, MPI, # 0605 …, in which the authors conclude (among others) that entrepreneurship creates jobs and reduces unemployment. This extension … will be feasible by estimating the total economy´s entrepreneurship reward for Western European countries and relating it …

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