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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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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

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

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship

Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …

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Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemployment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (longterm) unemployment significantly increases …

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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a …

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Creative Unemployment

Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … individuals who are initially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage … influences resulting in higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate …

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