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Labor Market Effects of Adult Education Vouchers: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C.; … - 2010

Lifelong learning becomes increasingly important in times of population ageing, but little is known about the returns to adult education or the effectiveness of government attempts to promote adult learning. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment with...

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Assessing Selection Bias in Non-experimental Estimates of the Returns to Workplace Training

Sauermann, Jan; Stenberg, Anders - 2021

We assess selection bias in estimated returns to workplace training by exploiting a field experiment with random assignment of workers to a one-week training program. We compare experimental estimates of this program with non-experimental estimates that are estimated by using a sample of agents...

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Micro-level Evidence on the Survival of German Manufacturing Industries - A Multidimensional Analysis

Schindele, Yvonne; Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010

Several empirical studies showed that it is not the level of entrepreneurial activity itself, but the (long-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment. To this end, the aim of this paper is to analyze the...

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Survival dynamics in Portugal, a regional perspective

Sarmento, Elsa Morais; Nunes, Alcina - 2010

facts and determinants of new firm survival, a new entrepreneurship database was produced, using the administrative data of … comparability, in line with the "Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme" (OECD/Eurostat 2008 and 2009). We thus obtained a specific … application of a recent internationally comparable methodology for entrepreneurship to provide a multidimensional regional …

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Entrepreneurship and firms' mobility

Pablo, Federico; García-Tabuenca, Antonio; Gallo, … - 2012

The location of new establishments is a major issue from the perspective of economic activity and the analysis of the territory. Although both its determinants and consequences are multiple and complex, most studies are focused on single factors or aggregate approaches. This paper presents an...

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How Digital Are Albanian Enterprises: A Microeconomic Analyses

Kalaj, Ermira; Merko, Flora - 2021

This paper focuses on the analyses of the digitalization of enterprises and its performance impact in Albania. Using data from 2019 Enterprise Surveys (ES) we try to give answer questions related to digitalization that characterize Albanian enterprises. The survey was a shared project of the...

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Start-ups, Long- and Short-Term Survivors and their Effect on Regional Employment Growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2010

We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...

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Does Quality make a Difference? Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2010

entrepreneurship policy, which can be derived from our findings. …

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Regional determinants of new business formation in China: Prefecture-level evidence

Borowiecki, Martin; Leitner, Karl-Heinz - 2015

entrepreneurship. …

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The Growth and Human Capital Structure of New Firms over the Business Cycle

Murmann, Martin - 2017

Recent research based on aggregate data suggests that employment in young firms is more negatively impacted during economic crises than employment in incumbent firms. Using firm-level data, we show that under constant human capital of the firms' founders, employment growth in less than 1...

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