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Where to go? : workers' reasons to quit and intra- versus interindustry job mobility

Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005

This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...

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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States : 1968-1993, Second Version

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2021

We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in occupational and industry mobility over the period and document the levels and time trends in mobility...

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Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government

Bolton, Alexander - 2017

A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence public sector careers. We describe how elections alter policy outputs and disrupt the influence of civil servants over agency decisions. These changes...

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Transition with heterogeneous labor

Balla, Katalin (contributor); Köllő, János (contributor); … - 2006

the transition, up until the shock is fully absorbed. Viability is a function of the speed of job destruction and the … transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios, unemployment differentials are simultaneously determined by the speed of … destruction is fast and benefits are high. -- transition ; heterogeneous labor ; job creation ; unemployment benefit ; wage …

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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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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011

Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...

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When Liability Becomes Potential : The Survival Chances of Multiunit Entrants in U.S. Beer Wholesaling

Cserpes, Tunde - 2018

This paper analyzes how entrepreneurs fare in an intermediary market segment when the segment is closely attached to a single supplier market. While focusing on two structural constraints, organizational structure and competitive pressure, I build off of the fact that in the past thirty years in...

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Barriers to Entry, Entrepreneurship, and Income Inequality within the United States

O'Reilly, Colin - 2022

Regulations can create economic rents for incumbents at the expense of new entrants, thereby limiting entrepreneurship and exacerbating income inequality. Cross-country studies have shown that higher costs to starting a business tends to slow new firm formation (Chambers and Muenmo 2019) and...

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Job Flows and Establishment Characteristics : Variations Across U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Faberman, Jason - 2003

This paper addresses the role played within metropolitan areas by heterogeneous agent models of constant churning. The evidence shows positive relationships between job turnover, young establishments, and metropolitan employment growth. Most areas, however, differ in their levels of job creation...

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Oil price shocks and labor market fluctuations

Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José Ignacio - 2010

We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the US We first use smooth transition …

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