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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level : Evidence from SBA Loans

Brown, J. David - 2015

We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...

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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?

Bryson, Alex - 2016

, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK … turnover, and a decline in closure probabilities, over the period 2011-2014. The findings suggest SME investment in off …

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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA

Brown, J. David - 2015

Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...

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Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2014

Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....

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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit

Kneiding, Christoph - 2011

This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Bender, Stefan - 2021

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms : The Case of the Disability Law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2021

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled employees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?

Baumann, Julian - 2016

than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …

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Bobos in Paradise : Urban Politics and the New Economy

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2015

This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...

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