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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical...
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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
Kerr, William; Kugler, Adriana; Autor, David - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2007
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058838
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From Rags to Riches: How Robust is the Influence of Culture on Entrepreneurial Activity?
Busch, Christian; Lassmann, Andrea - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2010
-employment rates between immigrant groups within the same market. This approach allows holding constant the institutional environment … institutions. We also find, however, a significant influence of home-country institutions on differences in immigrant activities …
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Immigration : select documents and case records
Abbott, Edith - 1924 - Reprint.
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Does Self-Employment Measure Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Great Britain
Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012
Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …
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Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets
Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - In: Journal of Urban Economics 84 (2014) C, pp. 67-85
We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …
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The Role of Turkish Immigrants in Entrepreneurial Activities in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005
natives, whereas age-earnings profiles are similar for native and immigrant entrepreneurs. …
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The comparison of incomes of self-employed and salaried workers among German Nationals and immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005
This paper attempts to compare the economic success of immigrants and natives in Germany. Employing data from German Socioeconomic Panel, the paper investigates the factors affecting self-employment as well as compares the income of self-employed and employed workers among four groups – West...
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The Relationship between Business Ownership and Unemployment in Spain: A Matter of Quantity or Quality?/La relación entre el autoempleo y el desempleo en España: Una cuestión de ca...
VERHEUL, INGRID; VAN STEL, ANDRÉ; THURIK, ROY; URBANO, … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 24 (2006) Agosto, pp. 435-457
This paper examines the interrelations between self-employment and unemployment rates for Spain in the period 1972-2004, comparing them with the general pattern observed for OECD countries. We apply the model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) to Spain. The divergence...
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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events
Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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