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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...

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"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

that entrepreneurs with more varied work experience are more likely to introduce innovations that have not only technical …

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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time

Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track these firms until 2001 which enables us to analyze changes in workforce composition over time. Such a...

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...

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Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...

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Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Previous empirical studies have shown that solo entrepreneurs benefit from having balanced skills: Jacks …-of-All-Trades (JATs) are better entrepreneurs than specialists are. Nowadays however, the majority of entrepreneurs start up and run … entrepreneurs. We also explore whether (a lack of) individual balanced skills can be substituted by combining the skills of various …

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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …

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