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Gender differences in business performance : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2008

Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...

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The advantage of experienced start-up founders in venture capital acquisition : evidence from serial entrepreneurs

Zhang, Junfu (contributor) - 2007

Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital. This paper uses a...

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A study of academic entrepreneurs using venture capital data

Zhang, Junfu (contributor) - 2007

Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive venture capital database. I find that about two-thirds of the academic entrepreneurs locate their...

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The hardships of long distance relationships : time zone proximity and knowledge transmission within multinational firms

Bahar, Dany - 2018

Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...

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Where immigrants settle in the United States

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Using Internet data to analyse the labour market : a methodological enquiry

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavý, Miroslav; Thum, … - 2014

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

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Consumer search costs and preferences on the internet

Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - 2014

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …

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Does the internet increase the job finding rate? : evidence from a period of internet expansion

Denzer, Manuel; Schank, Thorsten; Upward, Richard - 2018

We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006 …-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During … this period, household access to the internet was almost completely dependent on connection to a particular technology (DSL …

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Opinion copulas, homophily and multimodal marginals

Askitas, Nikos - 2017

world, causes BCM to produce consensus which leaves us with the open problem of explaining the emergence and sustainance of …

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