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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship : Blessing or Curse?

Danakol, Seçil - 2013

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect …

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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021

an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship …

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'Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?' The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing Across Countries

Naudé, Wim - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …

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Cross Sections are History

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

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Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration

Campo, Francesco - 2020

A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...

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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat - 2017

This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Labor Market Policy : A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

I review theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies...

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Comparing Real Wage Rates

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012

A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...

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The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment : Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence

Gal, Peter N. - 2013

This paper investigates the role of policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the recent financial crisis using firm-level data. First, it provides comparable estimates on firm-level labor adjustment by country, industry and firm size. Second, using variance...

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