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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862087
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Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We analyze the following questions associated with outsourcing and profit sharing under imperfect labour markets. How does strategic outsourcing influence wage formation, profit sharing and employee effort when firms commit to optimal profit sharing before wage formation or decide for profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860383
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Labor Productivity
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study … the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for small firms with less than eleven employees to exempt two workers from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261209
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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey
Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two … employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859643
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Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation
Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendon, Sílvio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positiveassortative matching between firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861652
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Employment and Deadweight Loss Effects ofObserved Non-Wage Labor Costs
Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendon, Sílvio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
To assess the employment effects of labor costs it is crucial to have reliable estimates of thelabor cost elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862716
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage dispersion betweenthe high-skilled and low-skilled workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863113
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Equilibrium Unemployment with OutsourcingUnder Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863250
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Capital and Productivity: A New View
Boskin, Michael; Lau, Lawrence - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818545
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Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market : A New Perspective
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
It is common knowledge that the standard New Keynesian model is not able to generate a persistent response in output to temporary monetary shocks. We show that this shortcoming can be remedied in a simple and intuitively appealing way through the introduction of labor turnover costs (such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859640