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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604486
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607007
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Human capital elements and performance of small-scale manufacturing firms in Tanzania
Mahadea, Darma; Mkocha, Aira; Ramroop, Shaun - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 3 (2012) 2, pp. 164-178
. Consequently, since the 1990s Tanzania started promoting SME entrepreneurship to fast-track its economic growth and development. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669165
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106885
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144207
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083991
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?
Síle O’Dorchai; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703266
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Was erklärt hohe Arbeitseinkommen der Selbständigen? Eine Mikroanalyse mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels
Hirschel, Dierk; Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2004
The legitimacy of inequality concerning the income distribution in market economies is based on the assumprion of a dominant individual performance and the assumed existence of equal chances. To test the empirical relevance of this assumption requires the analysis of the determinants of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535603
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Risk and Choice: A Research Saga
Gollier, Christian; Hammitt, James; Treich, Nicolas - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2013
As in any research field, risk theory has its important questions, results, and paradoxes, as well as its seminal … papers and key authors. Louis Eeckhoudt has been a key author in the field of risk theory. To celebrate his many … contributions to the literature, and provides some illustrations of the remarkable research saga in risk theory over the last 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010968958
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Effects of Supplemental Revenue Programs on Crop Insurance Coverage Levels
Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J. - Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909777