This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on hiring decisions by own-account workers and firing decisions by very small firms (one to four employees). Using data from the EU-15 countries, our results show that the strictness of employment protection legislation is...

La PME ne semble pas avoir bénéficié d’un grand intérêt quant aux rôles, composition et contribution de leur conseil d’administration (CA). La recherche sur cet organe a été, en effet, dominée par le cadre d’analyse de la théorie de l’agence et a attribué une attention quasi...

Les femmes entrepreneurs vivent la croissance différemment. Contrairement à une vision plus traditionnelle de l'entrepreneuriat féminin, notre étude porte sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle certaines femmes entrepreneures cherchent délibérément la croissance. A partir de cette hypothèse,...

A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial quality across firms. This paper develops a new approach for estimating entrepreneurial quality by linking the probability of a growth outcome (e.g., achieving an IPO or a...

We study how a mortgage reform that exogenously increased access to credit had an impact on entrepreneurship, using individual-level micro data from Denmark. The reform allows us to disentangle the role of credit access from wealth effects that typically confound analyses of the collateral...

The purpose of this paper is to distinguish between the determinants of new start-ups and in migration of firms using a data-set that covers 13,471 limited liability firms in the Swedish wholesale trade industries during the period 2000- 2004. Our results indicate that the presence of a...

The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...

In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...