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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany
Kohn, Karsten - 2018
Creative industries comprise enterprises focusing on the creation, production, and distribution of creative or cultural goods and services. Following an explorative empirical approach, we analyze start-ups in creative industries regarding three issues along the start-up process: (1) personal...
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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
Felfe, Christina - 2012
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...
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Fostering the Emancipation of Young People : Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2012
. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is conditional on young adults renting accommodation, and it amounts to almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104666
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Peer Effects, Unobserved Factors and Risk Behaviours : An Analysis of Alcohol Abuse and Truancy Among Adolescents
Duarte, Rosa - 2007
The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777596
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Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa : Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2014
of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053527
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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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What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021
This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people's employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316733
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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Viinikainen, Jutta - 2016
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996537
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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel - 2010
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …
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More Alike than Different : The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and after the Crisis
Agnese, Pablo - 2011
This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent … global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and …
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