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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212670
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612591
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Entrepreneurship, organization capital and the evolution of the firm
Oshima, Atsushi (contributor); Ravikumar, B. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003647270
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The march of the techies : technology, trade, and job polarization in France, 1994-2007
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2016
Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to 2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high and low wage occupations have grown, while middle wage occupations have shrunk. During the same period, the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485237
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Immigration and business dynamics : evidence from U.S. firms
Mahajan, Parag - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332159
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Immigrant entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565661
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Behind the GATE experiment : evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404444
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Tax policy and entrepreneurship in the presence of asymmetric information in capital markets
Fuest, Clemens; Huber, Bernd; Tillessen, Philipp - 2003
This paper considers the implications of asymmetric information in capital markets for entrepreneurial entry and tax policy. In many countries, governments subsidize the creation of new firms. One possible justification for these subsidies is that capital markets for the financing of new firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506206
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Public economics and startup entrepreneurs
Boadway, Robin W.; Tremblay, Jean-François - 2003
This paper surveys the various forms of market failure that can arise when innovating entrepreneurs consider entering an industry, and outlines possible implications for public policy. Externalities can arise from entrepreneurial activities such as spillover benefits from new innovations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506218
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Public policy for start-up entrepreneurship with venture capital and bank finance
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2003
the rest must resort to standard bank finance. We consider a number of policies to promote entrepreneurship and venture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514147