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It’s the Opportunity Cost, Stupid!How Self-Employment Responds to FinancialIncentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision towork in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as apuzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee.Information on income...

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …

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African Americans Pursuit of Self-Employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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Fallstudie: “Pathologie der Organisation”Fehlentwicklungen in Organisationen,ihre Bedeutung und Ansätze zur Vermeidung

Klein, Helmut - Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften <Amberg - 2008

Aktuelle Studien zur Arbeitssituation in Unternehmen belegen Einzelaspekte wieProduktivitätsverluste, fehlende emotionale Bindung der Mitarbeiter und Defizite imManagementverhalten. Die Thematik wird in dieser Fallstudie in einem interdisziplinärenAnsatz untersucht. Basierend auf dem Modell...

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The Origins of Entrants and the Geographyof the German Laser Industry

Bünstorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

Entry into an industry often clusters in regions where the industry is already concentrated,which is suggestive of agglomeration economies. Regional public research activities mayexert another attracting force on entrants into science-based industries. Empirically theseproximity effects are...

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FINANCIAL DEPENDENCE AND FIRM SURVIVAL IN INTERWARBRITAIN

Chambers, David - 2007

Was the London Stock Exchange (LSE) little more than a Dickensian den of speculation, or did itmake a contribution to industrial development in interwar Britain? The interwar stock marketlaboured under problems of weak disclosure, inadequate investor protection and ineffectiveunderwriting. New...

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Goal Structures in Family Firms: Empirical Evidence on the Relationship between Firm and Family Goals

Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Braun, Reiner; Schraml, … - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München>

Goal structures in family firms seems of particular interest to the field as the overall orientation and the objectives of family firms are determined in an area of potential conflict between the two subsystems of firm and family. We asked shareholders of German family firms to rate the...

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Loss of Control vs. Risk Reduction – Decision Factors for Hiring Non-Family CFOs in Family Firms

Lutz, Eva; Schraml, Stephanie C. - Lehrstuhl für Finanzmanagement und Kapitalmärkte - 2010

Purpose: We examine motives for hiring a non-family Chief FinancialOfficer (CFO) in family firms. We explore the perceptions of family firm ownerstowards external managers by analyzing how their goals relate to the employmentof a non-family CFO.Design/methodology/approach: Our study is based on...

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Working in Family Firms: Less Paid but More Secure?Evidence from French Matched Employer-EmployeeData

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Rebérioux, Antoine; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employeremployeedata for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show thatfamily firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gapis due to differences in...

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Job Creation by Firms in Denmark

Ibsen, Rikke; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

howcould these jobs be recreated. Are these issues specific to industries or are they universal?The data used is register data … on workplaces and firms for the period 1980-2007. The baseunit of data is the workplace. The company (firm) is the legal …, mergersand divisions. Data must be corrected so that these administrative issues will not affect thesurvival of firms. The data …

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