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Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts
Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
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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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Job growth in early transition : comparing two paths
Jurajda, Štěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2002
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...
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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK …'s Business Structure Database (BSD), with data on management practices collected in face-to-face interviews from the HR Managers …
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When does HRM 'work' in small British enterprises?
White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2016
Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …
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Taking the leap : the determinants of entrepreneurs hiring their first employee
Fairlie, Robert W.; Miranda, Javier - 2016
Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (iLBD), Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through...
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Direct and indirect effects of subsidized dual apprenticeships
Crépon, Bruno; Premand, Patrick - 2019
Traditional apprenticeships based on private arrangements are widespread in developing countries. Public interventions have attempted to address failures in the apprenticeship markets to expand access or improve training quality. Subsidized dual apprenticeships have the potential to address...
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Transitioning from solo self-employed to microbusiness employer : local economic environment or owner characteristics?
Henley, Andrew - 2019
Only a minority of micro-businesses create jobs for others. This paper addresses whether personal characteristics and resources of the microbusiness owner or the local external economic environment are drivers of job creation. In the UK context of significant growth in self-employment but a...
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HRM and small-firm employee motivation : before and after the recession
Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2017
A long-running debate in the small firms' literature questions the value of formal 'human resource management' (HRM … characterizes 'high performance work systems' (HWPS) and 'strategic human resource management' (SHRM). Although the HPWS effect on …
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