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On the real effects of private equity investment : evidence from new business creation
Popov, Alexander; Roosenboom, Peter - 2009
Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equity affects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation...
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel (contributor); Thurik, Adriaan R. (contributor) - 2007 - This version: October 2008
The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it" , "taking steps for starting up" , "having a young business" , "having an older business" and "no longer being an...
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The transition to self-employment and perceived skill-mismatches: panel data evidence from eleven EU countries
Albiol Sánchez, Judit; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Teruel … - 2020
of the transition from salaried employment to self-employment on self-reported skill mismatches. To do so, this article … transition for the same individuals, using as the comparison group those individu-als who remain in salaried employment during … self-employment reduce their probability to report being skill-mismatched after the transition. Interestingly, we also …
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Institutions and the support for market reforms : a combination of individual self-interest and good institutions determines the level of public support for market reforms
Denisova, Irina - 2016
transition countries. However, political strategies that rely mainly on public support for pushing through economic reforms have …
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The young entrepreneurs of Europe and the role of international mobility
Roman, Monica; Paraschiv, Dorel Mihai - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 13, pp. 763-777
MOVE "Mapping mobility - pathways, institutions and structural effects of youth mobility in Europe". Using Prosperity Score …
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Etiopathology of Europe's Sick Man : Worker Flows in Germany, 1959-2016
Hartung, Benjamin - 2016
We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment rates. We attribute a substantial fraction of the rise...
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The China shock, employment protection, and European jobs
Aghelmaleki, Hedieh; Bachmann, Ronald; Stiebale, Joel - 2019
We investigate the effects of Chinese import competition on transitions into and out of employment using comparable worker-level data for 14 European countries. Our results indicate that, on average, Chinese imports are associated with an increased probability that employed workers become...
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The Distributional Impacts of Worker Reallocation : Evidence from Europe
Bluedorn, John C.; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, Niels-Jakob - 2022
Using individual-level data for 30 European countries between 1983 and 2019, we document the extent and earning consequences of workers’ reallocation across occupations and industries and how these outcomes vary with individual-level characteristics, namely (i) education, (ii) gender, and...
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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members' labor markets : outmigration has contributed to increasing wages and decreasing unemployment in the new EU member states but may als...
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014
The recent EU enlargements into Central and Eastern Europe and increased labor mobility within the Union provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source...
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Mobility and transition in integrating Europe
Gligorov, Vladimir - 2009
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