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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes
Jans, Jenny; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and temporal resolution. Then, we link inversion episode data to ground level pollution monitors and to daily in- and … the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990938
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294836
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The Post-Enlargement Migration Experience in the Baltic Labor Markets
Hazans, Mihails; Philips, Kaia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with several other surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EU accession with that of stayers and return migrants. Determinants of migration and return, as well as selection issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216288
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
Mariani, Fabio; Pérez-Barahona, Agustín; Raffin, Natacha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008460590
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Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia
Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU … labor market conditions in receiving countries and Slovakia. We show that besides the standard demographic factors …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959632
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Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies
Lauerová, Jana Stefanová; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762195
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Sectoral Restructuring and Labor Mobility: A Comparative Look at the Czech Republic
Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Labor mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of resources and the transition economies are often viewed as suffering from inadequate reallocation of labor. Using quarterly micro data for the 1994-1998 period, we provide a comparative analysis of the extent and determinants of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703146
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703404
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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths
Jurajda, Stepán; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822495