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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth

Henrekson, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

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Entrepreneurship and the business cycle

Thurik, Roy - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business … cycle? And is there causality? A two-way relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with … the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change creating upswings (opportunity entrepreneurship) and as rational …

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Who benefits from return migration to developing countries?

Wahba, Jackline - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Return migration can have multiple benefits. It allows migrants who have accumulated savings abroad to ease credit constraints at home and set up a business. Also, emigrants from developing countries who have invested in their human capital may earn higher wages when they return. However,...

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Ethnic minority self-employment

Clark, Ken - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …

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Knowledge spillovers and future jobs

Audretsch, David B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Globalization brings both good and bad job news. The bad news is that jobs will be outsourced from high-cost developed countries into lower-cost locations as soon as the associated economic activity becomes mechanized and predictable. The good news is that globalization creates opportunities...

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Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship

Block, Jörn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …

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Do family and kinship networks support entrepreneurs?

Nordman, Christophe Jalil - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Family and kinship networks are important in helping people get jobs and start companies, as statistics for developing countries show. Promising new research has begun to assess the positive and negative effects of these family and kinship ties on entrepreneurial success. To what extent, and...

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What can be expected from productive inclusion programs?

Rigolini, Jamele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Productive inclusion programs provide an integrated package of services, such as grants and training, to promote self-employment and wage employment among the poor. They show promising long-term impacts, and are often proposed as a way to graduate the poor out of social assistance. Nevertheless,...

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Can diversity encourage entrepreneurship in transition economies?

Nikolova, Elena - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Entrepreneurship is an important lever for spurring transition in the economies of the former Soviet Union and Central …

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