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Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow intounemployment, and outflow from …

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The Effect of Product Market Competition onJob Instability

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied bythe use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor ForceSurvey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instabilityrises with...

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Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing

Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003

An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...

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On the Real Effects of Private Equity InvestmentEvidence from New Business Creation

Popov, Alexander; Roosenboom, Peter - European Central Bank - 2009

Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equityaffects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits newbusiness incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates andR&D intensity. A two standard deviation increase...

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Should Continued Family FirmsFace Lower Taxes Than Other Estates?

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2008

entrepreneurship. Here, weinvestigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costssaved and creative …

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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets:Which Institutions Matter?

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - Centre for Comparative Economics <London> - 2010

In this paper we combine a wide range of country-level institutional indicators with surveydata taken from the Global Enterprise Monitor on potential and actual entrepreneurial entry,to investigate the role of the institutions as determinants of the entrepreneurial entry,controlling for...

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Angels or Demons? Evidence on the Impact of Private Equity Firms on Employment

Lutz, Eva; Achleitner, Ann-Kristin - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München>

The impact of private equity firms on employment in their portfolio companies is a controversial topic widely discussed in academia and in practice in recent years. A large body of research has resulted from this debate. The studies are focused on different aspects of employment and are based on...

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Not invented here: Technology licensing, knowledge transfer and innovation based on public research

Bünstorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften - 2009

Using a new dataset encompassing more than 2,200 inventions made by Max Planck Societyresearchers from 1980 to 2004, we explore how licensee and technology characteristics affectthe licensing and commercialization of technologies from public research. We find noevidence that spin-offs and...

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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … entrepreneurship research.... …

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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES

Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate …) constraints and develops a theoreticalframework that examines the main obstacles to entrepreneurship in Africa’s LDCs. The … economies, development of productive entrepreneurship cannot be left tomarkets alone. The policy analysis suggests that the …

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