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This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
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Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a spikeʺ in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers’ behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....
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two decades after the start of transition in Slovenia, the judicial system is still a source of legal inconsistency and …
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estimations for the period from 1995 to 2013 show evidence in favour of capital inflow-driven real wage increases in excess of …
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of the liquidation proceedings. To this end, we draw on a novel dataset of firm liquidations from Slovenia and exploit …
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results imply that entrepreneurs react to tax incentives along both real and avoidance margins, while the latter elasticity is …
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This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained … due to presence/absence of entrepreneurs, i.e., low price of capital in autarky may reflect lack of demand for credit due … to scarcity of entrepreneurs and not capital abundance and eventually may lead to capital outflow from a capital scarce …
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We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs … populated markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: the elasticity of … entrepreneurs’ net monthly earnings with respect to population density is 0.02-0.03. …
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Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and explanations for their success. We find that … business income of Indian entrepreneurs in the United States is substantially higher than the national average and is higher … than any other immigrant group. Approximately half of the average difference in income between Indian entrepreneurs and the …
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The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because of the exceptionally tight labor market. A new measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching...
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