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What Does Codetermination Do?
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2022
. We cover the institution's history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue …
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Matriline versus patriline : social mobility in England, 1754-2023
Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2024
If social outcomes have social causation, mothers and fathers in different societies will have different effects on child outcomes. Social mobility rates on the patriline will differ from that on the matriline. From an extensive family lineage of 426,552 persons in England 1650-2023 we estimate...
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Longer-run economic consequences of pandemics
Jordà, Òscar; Singh, Sanjay R.; Taylor, Alan M. - 2020
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Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners
Andersson, Pernilla - 2006
In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...
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The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship : Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy
Congregado, Emilio - 2009
This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
Estrin, Saul - 2010
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …
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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self-employed. In the United States, however, rates of self-employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
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Gender Differences in Business Performance : Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2021
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
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Historical Data : Where to Find Them, How to Use Them
Giuliano, Paola; Matranga, Andrea - 2021
The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the influence of the past on current economic outcomes; to use unique natural experiments to test modern economic theories; and to use modern economic theories to refine our understanding...
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Wars, taxation and representation : evidence from five centuries of german history
Becker, Sascha O.; Ferrara, Andreas; Melander, Eric; … - 2020
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