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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...

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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence

Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009

We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...

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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2004

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on a two-state mixed proportional hazard model...

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Geographic Labour Mobility and Unemployment Insurance in Europe

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2004

Conventional wisdom suggests that unemployment benefits create a stronger geographic attachment by lowering the willingness of the unemployed to accept job offers. We assess empirically the effect of benefits on geographic labour mobility using individual data from the European Community...

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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004

This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...

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Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison

Wolter, Stefan C. - 2003

In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils in six member countries of the OECD, whether the fact of having many siblings affects the individual educational outcome. The hypothesis that we test is whether parents? resources matter for...

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Whatever works: Dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010

The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals...

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Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Heine, Jens Michael - 2004

This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different indicators of similarity of sectoral structure, it improves on...

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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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