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Does self-employment measure entrepreneurship? evidence from Great Britain
Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126339
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Does cultural diversity help innovation in cities: evidence from London firms
Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a social asset, but there is little hard evidence on its importance for the city’s businesses. Theory and evidence suggest various links between urban cultural diversity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745829
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Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets
Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126578
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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273264
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The Firm and the Region as Breeding Grounds for Entrepreneurs
Baltzopoulos, Apostolos - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
into entrepreneurship. I also find evidence that people are more likely to select the path of self-employment in the face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969808
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R&D Strategies and Entrepreneurial Spawning
Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. By examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552418
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Multinational resilience or dispensable jobs? : German FDI and employment in the Czech Republic around the Great Recession
Eisermann, Merlind; Moritz, Michael; Stockinger, Bastian - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"This article investigates the employment development of Czech-based firms in German ownership in the years around the Great Recession of 2008/2009. The intense involvement of German firms in the economy of the neighboring country via foreign direct investment (FDI) raises the question whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204406
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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth
Schlitte, Friso - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. Local human capital has a likely effect on skill specific productivity levels and employment growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740434
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Do small labor market entry cohorts reduce unemployment?
Garloff, Alfred; Pohl, Carsten; Schanne, Norbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to 'inverse cohort crowding' or on the other hand increase unemployment if companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293298
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A new look at the discouragement and the added worker hypotheses : applying a trend-cycle decomposition to unemployment
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a (stochastic) trend and a cyclical part and to estimate the influence of these components on labor participation. The persistent trend component of unemployment, which triggers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691302