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Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...

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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time

Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …

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Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemployment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...

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