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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship … and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999165
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The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality
Calderón-Mejía, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
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Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs
Wharton, Kate; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283577
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Persistent Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Nutrition and Schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian Earthquake
Bustelo, Monserrat; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …
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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
Hoyos, Alejandro; Nopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …
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Does More Mean Better? Sibling Sex Composition and the Link between Family Size and Children’s Quality
Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822922
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior
Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575749
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International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762383
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Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514864