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The contribution of managers to organizational success : evidence from German soccer

Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2014

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed effects, where we are exploiting the high...

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Closing the gender profit gap?

Batista, Catia; Sequeira, Sandra; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2021

We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the … relative to their male counterparts. The main drivers of improved business performance are improved financial management …

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We don't need no education: the effect of natural resource income shocks on human capital

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2020

We explore the effects of persistent income shocks on human capital using oil price fluctuations in a large sample of relevant African countries and employing micro data from multiple waves of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). Theoretically, such shocks enable human capital investment via...

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Informality as a stepping stone : a search-theoretical assessment of informal sector and government policy

Tumen, Semih - 2016

This paper develops a model of sequential job search to understand the factors determining the effect of tax and enforcement policies on the size (i.e., employment share) of the informal sector. The focus is on the role of informal sector as a stepping stone to formal jobs. I argue that the...

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Entrepreneurship in the shadows : wealth constraints and government policy

Tumen, Semih - 2016

I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...

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The natural resource boom and the uneven fall of the labor share

Dávila, Andrés O.; Fernández, Manuel; Zuleta, Hernando - 2021

We study the effect of the upsurge of natural resources income from the commodity price boom of the 2000s on the functional distribution of income. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model of Dutch disease that characterizes how natural resource windfalls affect equilibrium factor shares....

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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016

The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...

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Dinner table human capital and entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K.; Oyer, Paul E. - 2018

We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …

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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

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Does education enhance entrepreneurship?

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021

. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …

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