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Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Rusinek, Michael; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wages directly defined byindustry-level agreements. In addition, for some workers, industry agreements arecomplemented by firm-specific agreements. Yet, the relative importance of firm and industryagreements (in other words, the...

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The Impact of Teams on Output, Quality and Downtime:An Empirical Analysis Using Individual Panel Data

Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements onbusiness performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data for rejection,production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period,more than 77,000...

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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network

Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

We study entrepreneurs’ start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informalnetwork, whose membership cannot … be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals itgets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local … a network. Thus, the formation of the network isinefficient as entrepreneurs incur networking costs for purely …

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

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

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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimilano; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy changeconsists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare …

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Credit Constraints and ProductiveEntrepreneurship in Africa

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Leonce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Limited access of entrepreneurs to credit constrains the creation and growth of private firms.In Africa, access to … entrepreneurship andprivate sector employment in Africa.... …

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It’s the Opportunity Cost, Stupid!How Self-Employment Responds to FinancialIncentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision towork in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as apuzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee.Information on income...

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades?Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear’sTheory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004).Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- andfinancial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms … of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance ofsmall-firm ownership in some industries as … entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to …

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity?Evidence from U.S. States

Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiringbelow efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affectproductivity. These theoretical...

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