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Financing entrepreneurial firms in Europe : facts, issues, and research agenda
Bottazzi, Laura; Da Rin, Marco - 2003
During the latter part of the 1990s the introduction of the euro, the dramatic increase in the supply of venture capital in most EU countries, and the creation of several new equity markets targeted at innovative firms have dramatically transformed the financing prospects of European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507965
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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions
Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000
The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781640
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Does venture capital investment spur employment growth?
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2003
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
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Venture capital investment and labor market performance : a panel data analysis
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2002
Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408964
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Use of ICTs : what effect on the quality of youth employment in Cameroon?
Meka’a, Cosmas Bernard; Njiepue Nouffeussie, Astride … - 2023
quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447803
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Performance of young adults : the importance of different skills
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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Waiting longer before claiming, and activating youth : no point?
Cockx, Bart; Van Belle, Eva - 2016
counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period …
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Corruption and political stability : does the youth bulge matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2016 - This version: 05.05.2016
This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … with a relatively large youth population. Using panel data covering the 2002-2012 period for more than 100 countries, we … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
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Screening through activation : differential effects of a youth activation programme
Hall, Caroline; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017
theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …
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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
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