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This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …
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This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the...
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What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...
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This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important-but specific-function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …
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industry and employment. These relationsprovide the building blocks of a new industrial policy. The articles areincluded in … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by CambridgeUniversity Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … inevitabletradeoff between greater employment but at the sacrifice of lower wages on theone hand, versus the maintenance of wages and …
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This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch firms in 1997. Weestimate several models...
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between agglomeration externalities (specialization, diversity, and competition), accessibilty measures and the employment … growth of a particular industry on a particular site. We use data on employment growth of site-industries on 68 formal …
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