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The effect of business regulations on nascent and actual entrepreneurship

Stel, Andre van; Storey, David; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a … sample of countries participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two …-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual entrepreneurship rate, while taking into account the interrelationship between …

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The Polish Growth Miracle: Outcome of Persistent Reform Efforts

Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Since the beginning of transition in 1990 from a centrally planned to a market oriented economy, the performance of Poland’s economy has been outstanding if we take GDP growth as our measure. It is not specific reforms that can explain this performance but the radical (“big bang”) reforms...

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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

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Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in wage dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition. Russia also has an extremely large incidence of wage arrears. We analyse to what extent wage arrears affect the...

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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor Force Survey and The Russian Longitudinal Monitor Survey we compare the pattern of turnover with a...

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How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...

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Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine

Pignatti, Norberto; Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of a lack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informal employment in Ukraine and...

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Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges

Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...

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Innovation, strategic renewal and its effect on small firm performance

Folkeringa, Mickey; Stel, Andre van; Meijaard, Joris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between strategic renewal and the performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees). We use a panel of micro data on about 1000 Dutch firms. The dataset contains information on aspects of strategic renewal, including process innovation and...

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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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