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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?
Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul; … - 2013
This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...
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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - 2009
and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2014
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers - a suitable comparison group - and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435236
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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - 2013
We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track these firms until 2001 which enables us to analyze changes in workforce composition over time. Such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293184
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Firm-level heterogeneity and the decision to export: A real option approach
Naudé, Wim A.; Gries, Thomas; Bilkic, Natasa - 2013
In new new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose an alternative way to model whether firms export or...
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The Post Crisis Growth in the Self-Employed: Volunteers or Reluctant Recruits?
Henley, Andrew - 2015
In the UK by late 2014 there were almost 0.75m more self-employed than at the start of the financial crisis in early 2008. This represents over 75% of jobs growth in the UK over the same period. This experience has attracted commentary from independent policy analysts and others, focusing on...
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The Power of (Non) Positive Thinking: Self-Employed Pessimists Earn More than Optimists
Dawson, Christopher; de Meza, David Emmanuel; Henley, Andrew - 2015
Developing further the accumulating evidence that self-employment attracts optimists, this paper investigates the relationship between earnings and prior optimism. It finds that self-employed optimists earn less than self-employed realists. Amongst employees, optimists earn more. These results...
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a thorough reappraisal of the sector. What are less well understood, however, are the drivers that reallocate scarce human and physical resources across occupations and space, and...
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
that entrepreneurs with more varied work experience are more likely to introduce innovations that have not only technical …
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