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–2009, we find that: (1) local-level employer concentration exhibits substantial cross-sectional and time-series variation and … increases over time; (2) consistent with labor market monopsony power, there is a negative relation between local-level employer …
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by extending the Jovanovic (1979) theory of job matching and employer learning. In our social-capital model employees …Many founding teams of new firms form at a common employer. We model team formation and the entry of employee spinoffs … learn about their colleagues' characteristics at a faster rate than the employer and recruit suitable colleagues to join the …
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In this paper, we highlight the potential for linked employer-employee data to be used in entrepreneurship research …, describing new data on business start-ups, their founders and early employees, and providing examples of how they can be used in … entrepreneurship research. Linked employer-employee data provides a unique perspective on new business creation by combining …
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We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …
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Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers...
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Our paper demonstrates that while failure tolerance by investors may encourage potential entrepreneurs to innovate, financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure endogenously choose to fund less radical innovations. Failure tolerance as an equilibrium price that increases in...
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Funding of research is critically important because it affects the flow of new, doctorally qualified scientists into the workforce. This paper provides new insights into how survey data can be combined with administrative records to examine the ways in which funding affects workforce decisions....
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We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly assigning employees to different … cognitive cost of thinking through different savings scenarios. Default assignment also changes employees' attitudes toward …
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This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries with higher valuation for...
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We analyze a new management survey for around 1,000 firms and 10,000 employees across two large provinces in China. The … firm performance, suggesting all employees within the firm are (at least partly) aware of the their firms' managerial …
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