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Entrepreneurship in the UK
Blanchflower, David G.; Shadforth, Chris - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines the causes and consequences of changes in the incidence ofentrepreneurship in the UK. Self-employment as a proportion of total employment is high byinternational standards in the United Kingdom, but the share has fluctuated over time. Weexamine the time series movements in...
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The effects of new firm formation on regional development over time: The case of Great Britain
Mueller, Pamela; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This paper re-examines the link between new firm formation and subsequent employment growth. It investigates whether it is possible to have the wrong type of entrepreneurship - defined as new firm formation which leads to zero or even negative subsequent employment growth. It uses a very similar...
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The link between firm births and job creation: Is there a Upas Tree effect?
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been examined...
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Theoretical approach and practical analysis on employment measures- case study on Romania, 2010
Balan, A. Ana Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The active measures are the main strategies that have the effect of reducing the unemployment, on short, medium and long term. An active measure has the effect of employment growth, by creating new jobs or by facilitating the access to vacancies. This paper aims to inform about the active...
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Restart-Performance and the Returns of Previous Self-Employment
Metzger, Georg; Niefert, Michaela - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
Going bankrupt does not necessarily mean the end of an entrepreneurial career. Recent reforms of the insolvency law in several European countries towards a more debtorfriendly system similar to Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code make it easier for bankrupt entrepreneurs to start a new...
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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simu1taneousmodel, allowing for interregional commuting. The proposed dynamic specificationdistinguishes between short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects and it encompassesthe lagged-adjustment specification that is...
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*Trade Shocks** and Local Employment Multipliers: Evidence from France
Malgouyres, Clement - European Regional Science Association - 2013
heterogeneity of local multipliers across local labor markets and across sectors. In order to cope with possible endogeneity issues … results. I find that the local multiplier is larger for local labor markets with high initial unemployment rate. Similar … results hold when using hours supplied instead of mere headcount, suggesting that ?tight' labor markets fail to adjust through …
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Local Multipliers, Unemployment and Migration: An Empirical Analysis of the United States
Dijk, Jasper Van - European Regional Science Association - 2014
I show that the nontradable sector of a regional economy benefits from attracting jobs in the tradable sector. I find that on average one new job in a tradable industry in a city will attract 1.02 extra jobs in the nontradable sector of that same city. This local multiplier effect increases with...
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Determinants of Local Multipliers
Dijk, Jasper Van - European Regional Science Association - 2014
A key aspect of understanding how regions grow is the interplay between jobs in the tradable and jobs in the non-tradable sector. Jobs in the tradable sector supply the world market and can therefore move from region to region, but every region has a local demand for non-tradable goods and the...
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