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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010
occupational groups. Easing the educational entry requirement has fostered self-employment significantly for less qualified … craftsmen, almost doubling the entry probability, even as exit rates remained unaffected. Weaker effects occur for other … ; Entrepreneurship ; Educational entry requirement Natural experiment ; Craftsmanship …
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Business start-ups by the unemployed : an econometric analysis based on firm data
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1998
This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany as promoted by the Work Support Act (so called bridging allowances). In 1994, the services provided were improved considerably, which led to a sharp increase in the number of...
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Do company builders create jobs? : examining the rise of incubation finance in Germany
Scheuplein, Christoph; Kahl, Julian - 2017
Over the past decade, new types of business incubation have been developed. One particularly prominent example is company builders, which use their own resources to build up companies, establishing numerous companies in a series. In doing so, this investor type facilitates internal and external...
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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2020
Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we...
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Do tax loss restrictions distort venture capital funding of start-ups?
Bührle, Anna Theresa - 2021 - This version: January 13th, 2021
Anti-tax loss trafficking rules disallow the use of loss carryforwards after a change in ownership or activity (such as significant changes in turnover, employment, or the product portfolio). This restriction could threaten accumulated loss carryforwards of start-ups. Accounting for the...
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Farms versus firms in economic development : the assumptions and consequences of learning dynamics in agriculture and mnufacturing
Srinivas, Smita; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2015
-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its crossover supplier segments with manufacturing. The sections analyze …. It then analyzes the learning implications of two theories - unlimited labor and induced innovation - on economic … models that connect learning and innovation to growth require closer attention and have important developmental consequences …
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Conditions for innovation in Brazil : a review of key issues and policy challenges
Zuniga, Pluvia; De Negri, Fernanda; Dutz, Mark Andrew; … - 2016
This paper examines Brazil's position in research, technology transfer and innovation activities relative to peer … economies and a selected group of developed countries. It reviews the governance of the research and innovation systems, the … discussions from a national seminar on Brazil's innovation policies, the paper identifies key outstanding challenges to foster a …
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The pricing behaviour of UK firms
Batini, Nicoletta; Jackson, Brian; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2002
Industrial prices of goods and services are a function of costs of production and of the mark-up that firms apply on those costs. If these prices relate to goods that are traded internationally, they will also be influenced by the price at which those goods are exchanged in international...
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Re-thinking science-industry relations along the interactive model : the case of academic spin-offs
Potthast, Jörg - 2009
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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture : production and challenges
Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017
This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...
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