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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762176
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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822293
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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
explanatory power once they are introduced jointly rather than one at a time, or when country, industry and year fixed effects are … within countries do not. Moreover, the limited firm- and country-level variations in the business environment over time do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822639
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Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
leisure time decreases through the life cycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646308
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Human Capital Policy
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761961
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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and … leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three … countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762224
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Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762285
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Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age and a hump-shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762327
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Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
Bender, Keith A.; Habermalz, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703399
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Job Creation and Job Destruction over the Life Cycle: The Older Workers in the Spotlight
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Chéron, Arnaud; Langot, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
-cycle of workers. Forward looking decisions about hiring and firing depend on the time over which to recoup adjustment costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822261