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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...

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Increasing the legal retirement age: the impact on wages, worker flows and firm performance

Martins, Pedro Silva; Novo, Álvaro A.; Portugal, Pedro - 2009

reform introduced in Portugal in 1994: women's LRA was gradually increased from 62 to 65 years while men's LRA stayed …

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Measuring what employers really do about entry wages over the business cycle

Martins, Pedro Silva; Solon, Gary; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2010

jobs. We illustrate the methodology by applying it to data from an annual census of employers in Portugal over the period … 1982-2007. We find that real entry wages in Portugal over this period tend to be about 1.8 percent higher when the …

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