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Schaller, Daria; Hennrich, Jonas; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2025

This paper documents the methodology, content, and evolution of the ifo Human Resources (HR) Survey, a quarterly survey conducted by the ifo Institute since 2008 that targets human resource managers in German firms. While the ifo Institute’s traditional business surveys capture general...

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Slow to hire, quick to fire : employment dynamics with asymmetric responses to news

Ilut, Cosmin; Kehrig, Matthias; Schneider, Martin - 2017

Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...

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Techies and firm level productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...

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Cousins from overseas : the labour market impact of a major forced return migration shock

Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022

We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...

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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron - 2013

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

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Homeownership and entrepreneurship : the role of mortgage debt and commitment

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - 2014

We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and … homeowners start a business; and (ii) the negative relation between mortgage debt and entrepreneurship is more pronounced when … income volatility is higher. Our model further predicts that the relation between housing wealth and entrepreneurship is …

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Dynastic entrepreneurship, entry, and non-compete enforcement

Rauch, James E. - 2015

We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …

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The impact of entrepreneurial risk aversion on wages in general equilibrium

Feng, Ying; Rauch, James E. - 2015

One of the leading theories of entrepreneurship is that less risk averse individuals become entrepreneurs and more risk …

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A general equilibrium theory of occupational choice under optimistic beliefs about entrepreneurial ability

Dell'Era, Michele; Opromolla, Luca David; Santos-Pinto, … - 2018 - This version: August 30th, 2018

to entrepreneurship, and output. The calibration shows that optimism can explain the empirical puzzle of the low mean … returns to entrepreneurship compared to average wages. …

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