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A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...
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Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … explain the larger scale of the flows to Spain. We argue that the puzzle is explained by taking into account that (i) the … options to migrate legally to either destination were slim, and (ii) the cost of illegally migrating to Spain was lower than …
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marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …
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, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
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use new micro-data from three countries - France, Spain and the United States - to examine one mechanism whereby such …
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This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
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risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …
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go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective …
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discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …
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focus on Spain and the U.S. and show that the elasticity of substitution is above one in Spain and below one in the U.S. We … also show that the price markup drives the elasticity of substitution away from one, upwards in Spain, downwards in the U …
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