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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360527
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863008
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865251
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Productive, Unproductive and Destructive Entrepreneurship:A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration
Sauka, Arnis - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2008
Drawing on Baumol’s concepts of productive, unproductive and destructiveentrepreneurship and relevant amendments, this thesis aims to contribute to theentrepreneurship literature by developing a conceptual framework which allowsoperationalising the concepts for empirical assessment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418714
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WHY ARE OPTIMISTIC ENTREPRENEURS SUCCESSFUL?AN APPLICATION OF THE REGULATORY FOCUS THEORY
Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Sauka, Arnis - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2008
Does entrepreneurial optimism affect business performance? Using a unique data setbased on repeated survey design, we investigate this relationship empirically. Ourmeasures of ‘optimism’ and ‘realism’ are derived from comparing the turnovergrowth expectations of 133 owners-managers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418715
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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education
Weber, Richard; Graevenitz, Georg von; Harhoff, Dietmar - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2009
Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, butlittle research is available to … assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importanceto understand whether entrepreneurship education raises … intentions to be entrepreneurialgenerally or whether it helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship …
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
We study entrepreneurs’ start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informalnetwork, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals itgets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are thenreflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486875
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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Credit Constraints and ProductiveEntrepreneurship in Africa
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Leonce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
entrepreneurship andprivate sector employment in Africa.... …
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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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