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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024
We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities
Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2018
We investigated the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: degree class and extra-curricular activities. These characteristics were randomly assigned to 2,800...
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Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Entrepreneurship, as re ected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow of … is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be persistent. This …
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The Short-Term Effect of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Workers in Canada
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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Canadian Small Businesses’ Employees and Owners during COVID-19
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...
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Self-employment and Subjective Well-Being
Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021
Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022
We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our … entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to higher intensity of air pollution lowers one's proclivity for … entrepreneurship. We also find that industrial activity and self-efficacy mediate the relationship between air pollution and …
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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022
We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our … entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to higher intensity of air pollution lowers one's proclivity for … entrepreneurship. A one standard deviation increase in air pollution leads to a 21.2% decrease in the propensity for entrepreneurship …
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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
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Beauty and Job Accessibility: New Evidence from a Field Experiment
Deng, Weiguang; Li, Dayang; Zhou, Dong - 2019
This study uses a field experiment to resolve the difficulties of quantifying personal appearance and identify a direct causal relationship between appearance and employment in China. The experiment reveals that taste-based pure appearance discrimination exists at the pre-interview stage. There...
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