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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839291
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Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals … on the scope of government intervention. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079233
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Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists
Gallet, Craig A.; List, John A.; Orazem, Peter F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using a unique sample of new Ph.D. economists in 1987 and 1997, we examine how job seekers and their employers alter their search strategies in strong versus weak markets. The 1987 academic market was strong while the 1997 market was much weaker. A multimarket theory of optimal search suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763669
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Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of …. Our results indicate that entrepreneurial entry is inversely related to the size of the government, and more weakly to the … removed from the sample but unlike the size of government, the results on corruption are not confirmed by country-level fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466014
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Trade, Labor Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change
Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
of labor market institutions and government intervention. In particular, technology change is induced by rigid wage … commodity prices, openness induces the government to subsidize technological innovation in the developed country because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566677
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International Evidence on Well-being
Blanchflower, David G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for “unpleasant” or “undesirable”, which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822147
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822315
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Happiness Dynamics with Quarterly Life Event Data
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper addresses the question of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of child or spouse and being a victim of crime. The key advantage of our data is that we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822547
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A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822665
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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252277