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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services

Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper - in search of further evidence supporting the results recently … obtained for a large sample of Dutch firms in the hospitality industry - we examine whether the assumption that growth rates … are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy …

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Determinants of Enterprise restructuring in Transition: Description of a Survey in Russian Industry

Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterprise performance is improved. However, it is not a priori clear which factors are essential for this. For Russia, data to investigate the potential determinants of enterprise performance is scarce....

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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?

Moers, Luc - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries over the period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions are significant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turn being important for the...

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Informal Sector in Developed and less Developed Countries: A Literature Survey

Gerxhani, Klarita - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of the contributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the Public Choice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionally different types of countries: developed...

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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security

Hoogeveen, Hans - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with the continuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of labor for the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretation is advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen...

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Risk Pooling through Transfers in Rural Ethiopia

Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

It is often assumed that transfers received from governments, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), friends and relatives help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature...

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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Tax Evasion and the Source of Income

Gërxhani, Klarita; Schram, Arthur - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

A series of experiments in Albania and the Netherlands give us the opportunity to compare behavioral patterns related to tax evasion. Subjects have to decide between a random 'registered' income, the realization of which will be known to the experimenter for sure, and a random 'unregistered'...

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Forecasting Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...

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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries

Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

In the present paper we address the relationship between the extent of business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focus upon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownership related to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...

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