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Earnings-Tenure Profiles: Tests of Agency and Human Capital Theories Using Individual Performance Data

Kato, Takao; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Jones, Derek C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first direct test of the relative validity of human capital and agency explanations … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … of interest concerns employee ownership (many workers at our case are employee owners). Consistent with agency theory we …

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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics … agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees … behavioral complexity and realism into models of agency within organizations. Specifically, we assess the insights gained by …

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...

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Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia

Bollinger, Christopher R.; Ziliak, James P.; Troske, Kenneth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Despite evidence that skilled labor is increasingly concentrated in cities, whether regional wage inequality is predominantly due to differences in skill levels or returns is unknown. We compare Appalachia, with its wide mix of urban and rural areas, to other parts of the U.S., and find that...

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Transcriptional Modulation of the Developing Immune System by Early Life Social Adversity

Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...

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"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between …

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...

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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...

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