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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...

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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This discussion paper resulted in an article in Management Science. Volume 59 issue 7, pages 1514-1528. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team’s performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...

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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …

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Measures of Science & Technology in Ecuador

Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...

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Entrepreneurship and the Hidden Economy: An Extended Matching Model

Pugno, Maurizio; Lisi, Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper develops a labour market matching model in order to address the problem of the persistence of the hidden sector and of its regional concentration, as in Italy and in the enlarged Europe. The main novel features of the model are that entrepreneurial ability affects job productivity,...

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The Underground Economy in a Matching Model of Endogenous Growth

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of underground economy, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and...

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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach

Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …

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