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Innovation and the determinants of firm survival

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - 2006

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business : Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004

An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the confidential and restrictedaccess Characteristics...

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The impact of Greek labour market regulation on temporary and family employment: Evidence from a new survey

Anagnostopoulos, Achilleas; Siebert, W. Stanley - 2012

This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece's employment protection law (EPL) and national wage minimum for temporary employment. We find higher temporary employment rates especially among a grey market group of workplaces that pay...

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups

Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2015

This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision processes to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have...

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HRM practices and performance of family-run workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS

Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - 2011

This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...

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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS

Siebert, W. Stanley; Peng, Fei; Maimaiti, Yasheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006

set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …

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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

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