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Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Strange, William C.; Rosenthal, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …

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Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment:Evidence from Intergenerational Links

Dunn, Thomas; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

The environment for business creation is central to economic policy, as entrepreneurs are believed to be forces of innovation, employment and economic dynamism. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) to investigate the relative importance of financial and human capital...

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Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions

Serrano, Carlos J.; Åstebro, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper studies the effect of business partners on the commercialization of nvention based ventures, and it assesses the relative importance of partners' human and social capital on commercialization outcomes. Projects run by partnerships were five times more likely to reach...

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Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions

Lazear, Edward; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

There are two obvious possibilities that can account for the rise in productivity during recent recessions. The first is that the decline in the workforce was not random, and that the average worker was of higher quality during the recession than in the preceding period. The second is that each...

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Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatches: Evidence for the US

Cappelli, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Concerns that there are problems with the supply of skills, especially education-related skills, in the US labor force have exploded in recent years with a series of reports from employer-associated organizations but also from independent and even government sources making similar claims. These...

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Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth

Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In 1966, the philosopher Michael Polanyi observed, "We can know more than we can tell... The skill of a driver cannot be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of my own body differs altogether from the knowledge of its physiology." Polanyi's...

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The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S.

Greenwood, Jeremy; Dinlersoz, Emin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Union membership displayed a ∩-shaped pattern over the 20th century, while the distribution of income sketched a ∪. A model of unions is developed to analyze these phenomena. There is a distribution of firms in the economy. Firms hire capital, plus skilled and unskilled labor. Unionization...

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Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime

Mocan, Naci H.; Unel, Bulent - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of unskilled workers' earnings on crime. Following the literature on wage inequality and skill-biased technological change, we employ CPS data to create state-year as well as state-year-and (broad) industry specific measures of skill-biased technological...

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Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium

Meghir, Costas; Abbott, Brant; Gallipoli, Giovanni; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper compares partial and general equilibrium effects of alternative financial aid policies intended to promote college participation. We build an overlapping generations life-cycle, heterogeneous-agent, incomplete-markets model with education, labor supply, and consumption/saving...

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The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools

Wyckoff, James; Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these...

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