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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333276
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Creative Destruction and Transition : The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2004
This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261995
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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274617
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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884221
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Creative Destruction and Transition: The Effects of Firm Entry and Exit on Productivity Growth in Estonia
Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762424
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678689
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Should I stay or should I go? A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - 2003
This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an ?unfavourable?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265399
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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - 2022
We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at … nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one …-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level uncertainty at a one-year forecast horizon doubled at the onset of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351768
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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822493
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an "unfavourable"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761849