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Entrepreneurship research suggests that entrepreneurship education and training can bridge the gender gap in entrepreneurship, but little empirical research exists assessing the validity and impact of such initiatives. We examine a large government-sponsored entrepreneurship education program...
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entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement … entrepreneurial incomes, there is no effect on firm survival. …
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The Swedish employer paid payroll tax was reduced substantially for young workers in 2007, causing firms' average social fees to depend on the age structure of their employees. Using pre-reform conditions to define treated and control firms, we show that the lower costs induced by the reduced...
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The basic principle governing the development of the accounting framework is the choice of appropriate comparators. Firstly, when measuring contributions to job creation, we should focus on just job creating firms, otherwise we are summing over contributions from firms with positive, zero, and...
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We study the heterogeneity of family firms using registry data on all private firms in Sweden. We restrict our sample to firms with at least one employee, and we define a family firm as a firm where two or more individuals among the owners or the board of directors are related. We focus on the...
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In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product … at the industry level and I show that this also holds for fluctuations in value added. I extend the analysis to show that … idiosyncratic shocks to the firm, I find that family firms are less anxious to translate temporary shocks in performance into …
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In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product … at the industry level and I show that this also holds for fluctuations in value added. I extend the analysis to show that … idiosyncratic shocks to the firm, I find that family firms are less anxious to translate temporary shocks in performance into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052716
entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement … entrepreneurial incomes, there is no effect on firm survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025412
rates and inflation - from intrinsic performance - related to a superior product, production process or management - is …
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Scholars have previously investigated country and organizational-level factors associated with the incidence of female directors on boards. These studies, however, cannot explain why, in countries with strong gender equality and pressure for female directorships, firms are still hesitant to...
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