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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
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immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s …
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employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …
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Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016....
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countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and similarities in IOp in the light of di¤erences in social mobility and …
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We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … employment rates, significantly increases marriage and marital birth rates, and leads to a substantial increase in the total …
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increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …
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Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic upswings. I show that this is … persons have a relatively high propensity to become entrepreneurs out of necessity because they do not find paid employment. I …
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A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the...
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paper investigates how non-compete policies affect different types of self-employment. We exploit policy reforms in Utah and … Massachusetts in 2016 and 2018, which decreased the enforceability of non-compete covenants, as quasi-experiments. We separate self-employment … into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated …
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