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Kein Mindestlohn ohne unabhängige wissenschaftliche Evaluation
Arni, Patrick; Eichhorst, Werner; Pestel, Nico; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Die deutsche Bundesregierung plant die Einführung eines flächendeckenden Mindestlohns. Dieser Beitrag fasst die vorliegenden nationalen und internationalen Erfahrungen mit Mindestlöhnen zusammen. Er analysiert dabei die Konsequenzen für Beschäftigung und Einkommensverteilung und legt eine...
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Vom kranken Mann zum Vorbild Europas: Kann Deutschlands Arbeitsmarkt noch vom Ausland lernen?
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In den letzten zwanzig Jahren hat die Bedeutung internationaler Vergleiche für die Bewertung der Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik deutlich zugenommen. Weniger eindeutig ist jedoch die Frage zu beantworten, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen von ausländischen Erfahrungen für die Gestaltung von...
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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs: New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Acs, Zoltan J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
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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 …
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Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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