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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014
Guzman, Jorge - 2016
entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …
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Redistribution of Local Labor Market Shocks through Firms’ Internal Networks
Giroud, Xavier - 2016
Local labor market shocks are difficult to insure against. Using confidential micro data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions through their internal networks of...
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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity
Aghion, Philippe - 2006
How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...
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"Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation
Gentry, William M. - 2004
entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …
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The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016
By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data revisions to decompose the variation in the duration of...
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Do Credit Market Shocks affect the Real Economy? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and ‘Normal’ Economic Times
Greenstone, Michael - 2014
We estimate the effect of the reduction in credit supply that followed the 2008 financial crisis on the real economy. We predict county lending shocks using variation in pre-crisis bank market shares and estimated bank supply-shifts. Counties with negative predicted shocks experienced declines...
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Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity?
Hombert, Johan - 2014
business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started …
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...
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Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity : Theory and Evidence for the U.S
Gordon, Roger H. - 2002
Entrepreneurial activity is presumed to generate important spillovers, potentially justifying tax subsidies. How does the tax law affect individual incentives? How much of an impact has it had in practice? We first show theoretically that taxes can affect the incentives to be an entrepreneur due...
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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States
Hoffmann, Florian - 2014
This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates did not change substantially in Germany, increased and...
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