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Sorgner, Alina - 2023

This chapter presents the results of a systematic review of literature (SLR) on impacts of Covid-19 on entrepreneurship …. Emerging themes include policy responses to the Covid-19 crisis and their (unintended) consequences for entrepreneurship, as … their physical and mental health, represent a relatively low share of the literature on Covid-19 and entrepreneurship …

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What works in supporting women-led businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...

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Major streams in the economics of inequality: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the literature since 1950s

Lima, Pedro Garrido da Costa; Teixeira, Pedro; Silva, … - 2021

Since the late twentieth century there has been a growing interest in academic and political circles on inequality. In this paper, we develop a systematic analysis of the literature on this topic published in economic journals since the 1950s. This is done through an innovative approach that...

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Aging in style : does how we write matter?

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - 2022

The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine how it changes with age, how stylistic differences and age affect impact, and how style and prior...

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Downloading wisdom from online crowds

Saiz, Albert (contributor); Simonsohn, Uri (contributor) - 2008

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...

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An examination of the reliability of prestigious scholarly journals : evidence and implications for decision-makers

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor) - 2006

In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: "this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X". Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment...

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Contributions of Zvi Griliches

Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2006

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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e....

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Zipf's law for cities in the regions and the country

Giesen, Kristian (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2009

The salient rank-size rule known as Zipf's law is not only satisfied for Germany's national urban hierarchy, but also for the city size distributions in single German regions. To analyze this phenomenon, we build on the insights by Gabaix (1999) that Zipf's law follows from a stochastic growth...

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The elite brain drain

Hunter, Rosalind S.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Charlton, Bruce G. - 2009

We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on...

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