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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884334
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822686
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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations
Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125877
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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
Pesaran, Hashem; Xu, TengTeng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325438
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
structural change, new firms and innovations and therefore possibly also nowadays for employment growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822244
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The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Founders in Venture Capital Acquisition: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital. This paper uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763601
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A Study of Academic Entrepreneurs Using Venture Capital Data
Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763766
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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700902
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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884131
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Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena; Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884132