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The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs

Michaud, Marie-Laure; Kramarz, Francis - 2004

In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....

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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2004

time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …

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The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs

Kramarz, Francis; Michaud, Marie-Laure - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that … enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …

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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: a simultaneous probit approach

Parker, Simon C. - 2005

This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...

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Immigrant self-employment: does intermarriage matter?

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2009

show that immigrants married to a native are significantly less likely to exit from entrepreneurship compared to their …

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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Batista, Catia; McIndoe Calder, Tara; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2014

Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature has, however, not addressed how the estimation of the impact of return migration on...

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Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina; Wang, Chunbei - 2021

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians became the victims of a sudden increase in racial discrimination as public officials repeatedly referred to the virus as the "Chinese virus." We document that Asian entrepreneurship has been disproportionally hurt after January 2020, particularly...

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Black Entrepreneurs, Job Creation, and Financial Constraints

Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, Kyung Min; Brown, J. David; Earle, … - 2021

Black-owned businesses tend to operate with less finance and employ fewer workers than those owned by Whites. Motivated by a simple conceptual framework, we document these facts and show they are causally connected using large firm-level surveys linked to universal employer data from the Census...

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