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established by non-star analysts. Extending traditional theories of entrepreneurship and labor mobility, our results also suggest … that drivers of turnover vary by destination: (a) turnover to entrepreneurship and (b) other turnover. In contrast to … turnover to entrepreneurship, star analysts are less likely to move to other firms than non-star analysts …
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. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in non-routine analytic tasks and non …
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I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio …
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This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …
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The environment for business creation is central to economic policy, as entrepreneurs are believed to be forces of innovation, employment and economic dynamism. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) to investigate the relative importance of financial and human capital...
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We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …
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