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Parker, Simon C. - 2010

employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship … and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …

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The Productivity Puzzle in Business Services

Kritikos, Alexander; Schiersch, Alexander; Stiel, Caroline - 2021

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries. Using a German firm-level dataset of 700,000...

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Services, Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data

Görg, Holger; Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...

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Services Offshoring and Wages : Evidence from Micro Data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2021

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The Economic Progress of American Jewry : From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

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Start-Up Success of Freelancers : New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Merz, Joachim - 2006

If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...

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Competitiveness and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals

Reuben, Ernesto - 2015

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...

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Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets

Barlevy, Gadi - 2016

In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explores why these firms require young professionals to take on heavy work loads while simultaneously facing significant risks of dismissal. We argue that the...

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Structural Reform in Germany

Krebs, Tom - 2016

This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of full-day child care and full-day schooling, and...

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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...

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