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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

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...

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Inventories, Employment and Hours

Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs … production process and the definition of labor input as the product of employment and effective hours worked per worker. …

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Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production … firms. A tax-favored treatment of public production precludes production efficiency. It reduces welfare when labor supply is … net wage. This would counteract the distortion of labor supply arising from wage taxation. Full privatization is never …

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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries

Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

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Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Stewart, Jay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...

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From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Campos, Nauro F; Karanasos, Menelaos G.; Tan, Bin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Argentina is the only country in the world that was "developed" in 1900 and "developing" in 2000. The various competing explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political institutions, financial integration, financial development, and macroeconomic instability. Yet no study...

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Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896-2000

Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show...

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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

empirical research. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a higher proportion of outsourcing activity reduces the … unemployment. Finally, we characterize the optimal production mode and show that stronger labour market imperfections lead to a … production mode with a higher share of outsourcing. …

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Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only and where they negotiate over both wage and profit share. We find that in the first case...

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