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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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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri
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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 …
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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...
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Risky Earnings, Taxation and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Microeconometric Model for Germany
Fossen, Frank M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
Which role do individual income prospects play in the decision to be an entrepreneur rather than an employee? In a model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I...
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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
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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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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization
Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naud� - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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