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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
POSCHKE, Markus - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2011
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? This paper documents that features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita. Richer countries have fewer entrepreneurs and fewer small firms. The average, dispersion and skewness of firm size...
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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … newly introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884221
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross … a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678689
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SMALL SCALE RESERVATION LAWS AND THE MISALLOCATION OF TALENT
García-Santana, Manuel; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2010
In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity, aggregate output and welfare of the Indian economy. To this end, we extend the span-of-control model by Lucas (1978) into a multi-sector setting and embed it into the neo-classical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805396
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Small Scale Reservation Laws and the Misallocation of Talent
García-Santana, Manuel; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity, aggregate output and welfare of the Indian economy. To this end, we extend the span-of-control model by Lucas (1978) into a multi-sector setting and embed it into the neo-classical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854474
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CHANGE IN ECONOMIC STRUCTURE, EXPANSION OF UNIVERSITY TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF NON-WAGE EMPLOYMENT
PAVELESCU, Florin-Marius; VASILE, Valentina - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 35 (2012) 2(44), pp. 45-74
The present paper investigates the development of nonwage employment (NWE) in the context of sensible changes in economic structure, by increasing the relative importance of the services’ sector and labour force supply due to an expansion of higher education. We identify factors which favour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901892
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Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959718
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255496
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It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemploymentrather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on theopportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255541
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Firm Formation with Complementarities: The Role of the Entrepreneur
Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
We model the emergence of organization forms in a game between prospective entrepreneurs. Complementary roles arise endogenously in a way that admits a stable assignment of workers to firms. This contrasts with existing work on job matching, where stability typically requires workers to be...
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