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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527307
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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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
-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia …. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak … institutional environment in Russia in terms of three dimensions: on the rate of productive entrepreneurial activity measured in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763681
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604486
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Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546984
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990925
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The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Benedetto, Marco Alberto De; De Paola, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884216
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Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment
Gibbons, Steve; Silva, Olmo; Weinhardt, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Theories about neighbours' influence on children based on social capital, cohesion and disorganisation stress the importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child's education, none has tested whether neighbourhood stability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886139
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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
Belton, Willie; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886145