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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia : A Cross Regional Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - 2021
not especially low by international standards and are correlated with natural entry rates, institutions and firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324946
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Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
Koeniger, Winfried; Prat, Julien - 2021
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the exit-and-entry (extensive) margin, and the hiring-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317674
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Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2019
former Communist party membership from self-selection. Using individual-level Life in Transition–III survey and instrumental … practices, business ethics, and the nature of doing business in transition economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859290
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So Many Rocket Scientists, so Few Marketing Clerks : Estimating the Effects of Economic Reform on Occupational Mobility in Estonia
Campos, Nauro F. - 2008
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768180
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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms : A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2021
Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324848
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Institutions and Entry : A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2011
We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on novel databases and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129917
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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul - 2009
-growth ventures. We find that institutions exert different effects on entrepreneurial entry and on the individual choice to launch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155593
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Entrepreneurial Entry : Which Institutions Matter?
Aidis, Ruta - 2009
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763926
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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324752
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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry : Business Takeover or New Venture Start
Parker, Simon C. - 2006
We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779167