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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, A. Roy - 2008

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that - when this variable is added -...

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Linking Business Ownership and Perceived Administrative Complexity: An Empirical Analysis of 18 OECD Countries

van Stel, André J.; Stunnenberg, Viktor - 2004

Administrative burdens are known to be a major business constraint for incumbent SMEs in modern economies. Far less is known about the influence of these burdens on the startup of new firms. The current paper examines to what extent perceived administrative complexity related to starting a new...

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, A. Roy; van Stel, André J.; … - 2005

Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across economically developed nations have attracted the attention of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural rather than economic influences are assumed to play a decisive role. This paper deals with the influence of cultural...

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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

Thurik, A. Roy; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J.; … - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unem-ployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the "refugee" effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased...

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A third benefit of joint non-OPEC carbon taxes : transferring OPEC monopoly rent

Dong, Yan; Whalley, John - 2009

theory, the primary purpose of a carbon tax is to internalize a global negative externality. A second benefit for individual … countries is that the revenue raised by carbon tax can be used to reduce other tax rates and so lower the deadweight loss of tax … results highlight how a uniform carbon tax used by all non-OPEC countries will increase the buyer’s price of oil but decrease …

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Labour market institutions and unemployment: An international comparison

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2011

tax burden on labour income and a more generous unemployment insurance system increase, whereas a higher centralization of …

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Keeping a low profile: What determines the allocation of aid by non-governmental organizations?

Koch, Dirk-Jan; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; … - 2008

NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...

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Measuring international inequality aversion

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2008

I measure the rate of aversion to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and 2005. Over time, OECD countries have become less concerned about international inequity. Even for a fairly leaky bucket, the consumption rate of...

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Risk Aversion, time preference, and the social cost of carbon

Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J.; Yohe, Gary W. - 2008

The Stern Review reported a social cost of carbon of over $300/tC, calling for ambitious climate policy. We here conduct a systematic sensitivity analysis of this result on two crucial parameters: the rate of pure time preference, and the rate of risk aversion. We show that the social cost of...

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Service trade liberalization as a handmaiden of competitiveness in manufacturing: An industrialized or developing country issue?

Langhammer, Rolf J. - 2006

This paper discusses the issue whether developing countries forego chances in world manufactured markets by protecting intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection (ERP), the evidence is supportive. Yet, it...

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