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Empirical studies show that women are under-represented in highly paid top management positions of firms (glass-ceiling effect) which could be a cause of the gender wage gap. In order to study women's career paths, we develop a search and matching model where job ladders consist of three...
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workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies … positively related to wages and are more prevalent in foreign than in domestically owned firms (for example size, capital … relationship between ownership and wages for the population of Slovenian joint stock companies, while accounting for "spatial …
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the first cross-country evidence that reshoring is positively associated with wages and employment for high-skilled labor … back to the home economy but without improving low-skilled wages and without creating jobs for low-skilled workers. Since … it leads also to increasing wages for high-skilled workers, automation induced reshoring is associated with an increasing …
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While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...
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The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. This paper aims to shed some light on the relation between entrepreneurship and growth by arguing that entrepreneurial activity relates to growth via reallocation...
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Using a panel data model, we study the effects of regional and industry-level traits on new business formation (NBF) for 164 industries across 266 Chinese prefectures between 1998 and 2007. The objective is to provide empirical estimates on effects of prefecture traits on entry rates, and in...
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Studies for established market economies such as West Germany (Fritsch and Mueller, 2007), and Sweden (Andersson and … we present is regional entrepreneurship in West Germany in the 1984-2005 period, a time that was characterized by … compare regional entrepreneurship in West Germany between the years 1925 and 2005. This period was has been characterized by …
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influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries … and in knowledge-intensive service industries make a larger direct contribution to employment than start-ups affiliated to … industries. The impact of start-ups in innovative manufacturing industries on overall regional employment growth is, however, not …
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We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The … employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and that this indirect effect on incumbent employment leads to more jobs … driven by start-ups that survive a certain period of time. We draw conclusions for policy and for further research. …
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theory of individual investment decisions allows us to analyze self-selection patterns across differences in wages and …
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