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The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
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We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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Prior literature on the economic impact of immigration has largely ignored changes to the composition of labor demand. In contrast, this paper uses a comprehensive collection of survey and administrative data to show that heterogeneous establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job...
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- and employment-oriented startups in the KFS, we find that Asian-owned and Hispanic-owned startups have higher rates of …
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generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …
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We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … employment, and the effects are primarily felt by the relatively smaller businesses; the impact on large businesses are generally … non-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we …
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It is well established that employee spinoffs learn their parents' technologies, but little is known about their demand-side learning. We exploit the identification in international trade data of parent markets (countries) to investigate whether exporting employee spinoffs of exporting parents...
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This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …
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; female employment ; discrimination ; market test ; matched employer-employee data …
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