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Does Working at a Start-Up Pay Off?
Fackler, Daniel - 2020
(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in … labor market performance of workers joining startups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following …
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Do Startups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers?
Fackler, Daniel - 2018
-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It …
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Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship : The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs
Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023
I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who have previously worked in high-wage...
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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa : Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Nagler, Paula - 2014
Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...
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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … entrepreneurs to immigrants in wage/salary employment as well as native born business owners. We find that the returns to low …-skilled self-employment among immigrants is higher than it is among natives but also that wage/salary employment is a more …
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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The Returns to Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data
van Praag, Mirjam - 2017
through self-employment and modest, but significantly positive, for incorporated startups …Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the …
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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms : A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2021
analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and … incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals' employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …
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New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies : Matching Estimates and Their Robustness
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
-reform subsidy on individual employment prospects and labor market earnings up to 40 months after entering the program. Our results … suggest large and persistent long-term effects of the subsidy on employment probabilities and net earned income. These effects … of local employment agencies in allocating active labor market policy funds, allowing us to obtain a measure of local …
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