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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index: A new employment series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471686
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A fair share: Burden-sharing preferences in the United States and China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - 2010
Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions in the two largest CO2-emitting countries: the United States and China. We asked respondents about their preferences for four burden-sharing rules to reduce CO2 emissions...
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International service transactions: Is time a trade barrier in a connected world?
Dettmer, Bianka - 2010
to off-shoring of business services such as software program development and international call centre networks. Although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281652
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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291847
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Does the gender mix among employers influence who gets hired? A labor market experiment
Gaudeul, Alexia; Okvitawanli, Ayu; Panganiban, Marian - 2015
We consider in this paper whether the gender mix at the level of decision-makers in firms can influence gender representation at the employee level. We run a laboratory experiment whereby we present a pair of independent employers with applications from two potential employees. We consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348200
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Regional dynamics of innovation investigating the co-evolution of patents, R&D, and employment
Bürger, Matthias; Brökel, Tom; Coad, Alex - 2009
sectoral employment for 270 German labour market regions over the period 1999-2005. Our unique panel dataset includes … subsequent growth of employment in the Medical & Optical Equipment industry as well as in the Electrics & Electronics sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266666
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What is the value of entrepreneurship?: a review of recent research
van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007
answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276297
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The effect of new business formation on regional development: Empirical evidence, interpretation, and avenues for further research
Fritsch, Michael - 2011
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the effect of new business formation on regional development. After a brief sketch of the origins of research on this issue, the main results of different lines of inquiry are discussed. Main issues are the development of start-up cohorts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286450
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Regional Dynamics of Innovation Investigating the Co-Evolution of Patents, R&D, and Employment
Bürger, Matthias; Brökel, Tom; Coad, Alex - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
sectoral employment for 270 German labour market regions over the period 1999-2005. Our unique panel dataset includes … subsequent growth of employment in the Medical & Optical Equipment industry as well as in the Electrics & Electronics sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984634
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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090524