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business outcomes up to 19 months after business creation. Outcomes include start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, as … important positive effects of high scores of self-efficacy on start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, which become even … stronger when focusing on the growth-oriented outcome of innovation. Furthermore, we observe that generalized self-efficacy is …
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the determinants of entrepreneurial persistence. Next to observed survival we also construct a hybrid persistence measure … indicators emphasize different aspects of persistence. For the survival indicator, the predictive power is concentrated in … differ in survival chances, but they are more likely to lack a high psychological commitment to their business ventures. …
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entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as …, the higher they score on this index. Effects are particularly strong for growth oriented outcomes like innovation and … business expansion activities, while career ambition is positively associated with survival, income, and the probability of …
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hypothesize that divergent thinking has a lasting effect on post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes related to innovation and growth … founders, which we observe up until 40 months after start-up. We find strong relative effects for innovation and growth … outcomes. For survival we find conclusive evidence for non-linearities in the effects of divergent thinking. Additionally, we …
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we use a matching approach to compare a group of employees joining new firms in 1995/96 with a control group entering …
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Many pay-as-you-go pension systems have increased or plan to increase their legal retirement age (LRA) to address the financial consequences of ageing. Although the success of these policies is ultimately determined at the labour market, little is known about the effects of higher LRAs at the...
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The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel … turnover. While the strength of the turnover-performance relationship does not seem to depend on factors such as managerial …
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This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention despite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a law introduced in Portugal in...
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This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
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We propose a novel methodology to uncover the sorting pattern in the labor market. Our methodology exploits the additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from wages and transitions typically used in previous work. We identify the strength of sorting solely...
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