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Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Piva, Mariacristina; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
formation of start-ups – proxied by the ease of access to financial resources – have on the innovative efforts of incumbent … firms. In particular, we develop a theoretical model, highlighting a strategic incentive effect by which the innovative … Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634114
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884187
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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Pijnenburg, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany … reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business … formation is higher during recessions than in boom periods. This implies that new business formation is counter-cyclical. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271986
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Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly … to innovation networks for which our analysis does not find any empirical hint. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703089
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Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists
Gallet, Craig A.; List, John A.; Orazem, Peter F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
shifted their applications away from academia and toward the business sector. In bust conditions, academic institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763669
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Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762193
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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices – paid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703247
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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?
Bloemen, Hans; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822887
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Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives
Hammermann, Andrea; Mohnen, Alwine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception is an empirical study by Oyer (2008). In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646296
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279260