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Entrepreneurship over the business cycle

Yu, Li; Orazem, Peter F.; Jolly, Robert William - In: Economics letters 122 (2014) 2, pp. 105-110

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Some surprising facts about working time accounts and the business cycle

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2014

This paper reveals that German firms with working time accounts (WTAs) show a similar separation and hiring behavior in response to revenue changes as firms without WTAs. This finding casts doubt on the popular hypothesis that WTAs were the key driver of the unusually small increase in German...

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On-the-job search : amount, regional, and cyclical variation evidence from Great Britain

Longhi, Simonetta - 2010

Recent theoretical and empirical models of job search and job matching include on-the-job search as one of the relevant variables and implicitly or explicitly assume that on-the-job search increases in periods of growth and decreases in economic downturns. Because of lack of suitable data,...

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From mancession to shecession: women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions

Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - 2021

We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...

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This time it's different: the role of women's employment in a pandemic recession

Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; … - 2020

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue...

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Hierarchies, the small firm effect, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Swedish microdata

Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - 2013

enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However … fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …

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