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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden
Nykvist, Jenny - 2005
between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …
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Sorting on Unobserved Skills into New Firms
Knutsson, Polina - 2018
Human capital features prominently in theoretical work on post-entry performance of new firms. Empirical analysis has, however, to a large extent overlooked the unobserved component of human capital focusing on years of education or labor market experience. This paper adds to the literature on...
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Individual and structural influences on the entrepreneurial activities of academics
Bijedić, Teita; Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; … - 2016
, chair in entrepreneurship or awards for academic entrepreneurship) and (iii) network relationships simultaneously affect the … likelihood of engaging in entrepreneurial activities (nascent entrepreneurship) in academia. Using unique data collected from 5 …
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Inventories, employment and hours
Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002
The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that integrates inventory and labor decisions We extend a model of inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs associated with it In particular we distinguish between...
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The Relationship Between Skilled Labor and Technical Change
Savvidou, Eleni - 2003
This study investigates whether capital-skill complementarity is the explanation for skill-biased technical change. For this to be the case, capital-skill complementarity must exist in the first place and, secondly, all technical change must be embodied in nature, i.e. embedded in new capital...
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Changing task contents of jobs in India: Implications and way forward
Vashisht, Pankaj; Dubey, Jay Dev - 2018
In this paper, we analyse the evolution of the task content of jobs in India between 1983 and 2011. Following standard literature, we calculated five task intensities by combining NSS data with O-Net data at the 3-digit level of occupational classification. We find that, in line with global...
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Wage inequality and returns to education in Turkey: a quantile regression analysis
Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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AI unboxed and jobs: A novel measure and firm-level evidence from three countries
Engberg, Erik; Görg, Holger; Lodefalk, Magnus; Javed, … - 2023
We unbox developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate how exposure to these developments affect firm-level labour demand, using detailed register data from Denmark, Portugal and Sweden over two decades. Based on data on AI capabilities and occupational work content, We develop and...
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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages: Worker-level evidence from Germany
Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023
This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations...
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Exporting behavior and the demand for skills in German establishments
Kölling, Arnd; Mertens, Antje - 2020
The analysis deals with the influence of exporting on the demand for workers with different skill levels. Previous literature suggests that this includes two major topics. First, productivity of exporting firms may increase due to learning facts after entering international markets and/or be...
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