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Becoming an Entrepreneur
Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact onincome of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametricmatching estimator the paper alleviates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863120
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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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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable?An Empirical Test of Efficiency WagesBased on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using theefficiency wage model as the … mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urbaneconomy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863255
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Dismissals for Cause:The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make
Martins, Pedro S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, aspecific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attentiondespite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a lawintroduced in Portugal in 1989:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861536
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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration … and search on the job are the main drivers behind our model’s empiricalsuccess in replicating wage dispersion (residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486869
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce andExport Performance in German Enterprises:Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Statistical Offices to look at the quality of thisproxy variable by investigating the link between the average wage in a firm and … new light on the role of highly qualified employees forsuccess on export markets that is not revealed by the average wage …
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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimarães, Paulo; Woodward, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
developments in the estimationand analysis of models with high-dimensional fixed effects. Using wage regressions withcontrols for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522215
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Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazi l: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers
Martins, Pedro S.; Esteves, Luiz A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859603
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Minimum Wages in Kenya
Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860469
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Do Immigrants Affect Firm-Specific Wages?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
focused on the wage effects that result from changes in theaggregate labour supply in a competitive labour market. We argue … that if labour markets arenot fully competitive, the use of immigrants may also affect wage formation at the … effect works at least partly through a general effect on the wage norm inthe firm of hiring employees with poor outside …
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