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Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their workers to answer this question. Our analysis uses a brand-new dataset, spanning the period from 1993 to 2014, where we merge: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social...
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We demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians have a significant impact on the voting behavior of U.S. politicians. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians, as well as common seat locations on the chamber floor, are consistent predictors of voting behavior. For...
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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United …-isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via concentrated entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States …
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In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …
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discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …
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We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...
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on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on …We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence …
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The paper studies the factors which shape entrepreneurship among young adults. It finds, using data on a British birth …
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Platforms often have "crowds" of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs …
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