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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796455
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329079
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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
Henley, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761638
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The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac; Li, Dunli; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2017
Entrepreneurship Monitor's Adult Population Survey of 63 countries over 2002–2010 and find robust support for these hypotheses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744760
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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
Henley, Andrew - 2014
national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352285
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Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions
Konon, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2018
We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873505
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance : New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - 2004
structural change, new firms and innovations and therefore possibly also nowadays for employment growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262178
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The impact of local decentralization on economic growth: evidence from U.S. counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our … population and employment growth, but no significant impact on nonmetropolitan counties. In contrast, the fragmentation of … general-purpose governments per capita has a negative impact on employment and population growth in nonmetropolitan counties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276862
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Does Institutional Quality Affect Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Kumbhakar, Subal C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a novel modeling approach, and cross-country firm level data for the textiles industry, we examine the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology allows us to estimate the marginal impact of institutional quality on productivity of each firm. Our results bring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649819
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More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Kumbhakar, Subal C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor inputs and output of each firm, which gives us within-country distributions of these effects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884318