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Worker Displacement During the Transition : Experience from Slovenia
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan; Wu, Ruth - 2004
The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than that experienced in …
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003
longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261614
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The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: A comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2012
This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289873
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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Mexican entrepreneurship: a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2006
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267337
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Entrepreneurship in transition economies: the role of institutions and generational change
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269687
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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The dynamics of entrepreneurship: hysteresis, business cycles and government policy
Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - 2009
This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276150
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Why are the returns to education higher for entrepreneurs than for employees?
van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van … - 2007
We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277008
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277025