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Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

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The efficiency and equity of the tax and transfer system in France

Égert, Balázs - 2013

Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...

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Tax system design, tax reform, and labor supply

Pfeil, Katharina; Kasper, Matthias; Necker, Sarah; … - 2024

This study examines how tax system design and reform affect labor supply. We conduct an online experiment with 522 participants to assess labor responses to tax reforms that introduce or remove a notch, affecting after-tax income at either the lower or upper end of the income distribution. Our...

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Unemployment in Germany : reasons and remedies

Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer - 2003

. Barriers to entrepreneurship, to setting up new firms and to innovations which are prevalent on goods and capital markets also …

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Credit supply shocks and firm dynamics : evidence from Brazil

Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - 2023

We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...

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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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Income mobility of owners of small businesses when boundaries between occupations are vague

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2009

Ownership of small businesses can facilitate upward mobility through the income hierarchy and help individuals maintain a place at the higher end of the income distribution hierarchy. This paper compares the positional stability of owners of small businesses with that of wage earners, arguing...

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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

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