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Do women earn less even as social entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul; Stephan, Ute; Vujić, Sunčica - 2014
the gender pay gap as well as entrepreneurship research on women's entrepreneurship to the novel context of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438931
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COVID-19 and entrepreneurship
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286992
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525018
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Estimating who benefits from productivity growth : direct and indirect efects of city manufacturing TFP growth on wages, rents, and inequality
Hornbeck, Richard; Moretti, Enrico - 2019
We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998593
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Research funding and regional economies
Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016
Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517698
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The economic growth impact of hurricanes : evidence from US coastal counties
Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2008
We estimate the impact of hurricane strikes on local economic growth rates and how this is reflected in more aggregate growth patterns. To this end we assemble a panel data set of US coastal counties' growth rates and construct a hurricane destruction index that is based on a monetary loss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003744490
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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing
Halla, Martin (contributor); Scharler, Johann (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760281
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Unintended effects of national-based active labour market policies
Altavilla, Carlo; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto - 2009
Labour market policies settled at national level imply a "one-size-fits-all" labour market strategy. This strategy might not sufficiently take into account region-specific economic structures. In this paper we employ a panel factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) to evaluate whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818062
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For benevolence and for self-interest : social and commercial entrepreneurial activity across nations
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stephan, Ute - 2011
We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances … commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990 …) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308825
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Relational goods, monitoring and non-pecuniary compensations in the nonprofit sector : the case of the Italian social services
Mosca, Michele (contributor); Musella, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355650