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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950817
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252327
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Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market
Groysberg, Boris; Nanda, Ashish; Prats, M. Julia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777348
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Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment
Hornstein, Andreas; Krusell, Per; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Standard search and matching models of equilibrium unemployment, once properly calibrated, can generate only a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778040
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Optimal Employment Contracts with Hidden Search
Lentz, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In this paper I explore optimal employment contract design in a random search framework, where workers search on and off the job for employment opportunities similar to that of Lentz (2010) and Bagger and Lentz (2013). The worker determines the frequency by which employment opportunities arrive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796538
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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills
Adda, Jerome; Meghir, Costas; Dustmann, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618278
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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323429
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Serial Entrepreneurship: Learning by Doing?
Lafontaine, Francine; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821999
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Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More?
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
"illicit" tendencies as youths accounts for both entry into entrepreneurship and the comparative earnings of entrepreneurs. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206924
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Corporate Financial Policies With Overconfident Managers
Malmendier, Ulrike; Tate, Geoffrey; Yan, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Many financing choices of US corporations remain puzzling even after accounting for standard determinants such as taxes, bankruptcy costs, and asymmetric information. We propose that managerial beliefs help to explain the remaining variation across and within firms, including variation in debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778833