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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

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...

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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...

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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 economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive venture capital database. I find that about two-thirds of the academic entrepreneurs locate their...

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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...

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Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; de Blasio, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

opportunities. It examines Italy’s experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range …

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Training and the Density of Economic Activity: Evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; de Paola, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic conditions. We identify two aspects of this relationship going in opposite directions: on the one hand, the complementarity between local knowledge spillovers and training generates a...

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Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

Constant, Amelie F.; D'Agosto, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor’s from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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Residential Peer Effects in Higher Education: Does the Field of Study Matter?

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

of the peer effect varies by field. Using data from a middle-sized public university located in Southern Italy and …

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Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences: The Case of Italy

Caponi, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper addresses the problem of the dualism of the Italian economy, particularly of its labor market. Although the Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North, which represents two thirds of the whole economy, is...

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Intergenerational Persistence in Educational Attainment in Italy

Checchi, Daniele; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Leonardi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent …

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