IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7889

Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Jolanda Hessels, Udo Brixy, Wim Naudé, Thomas Gries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7852

Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany

Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Katharina Pijnenburg

published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2015, 11(2), 267-286

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7796

Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Seçil Hülya Danakol, Saul Estrin, Paul Reynolds, Utz Weitzel

published as 'Foreign direct investment via M&A and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse?' in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (3), 599 - 612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7795

Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Nora Stel, Wim Naudé

published as 'Public–Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (2), 254–268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7781

Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista, Janis Umblijs

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7757

The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7669

Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Robert W. Fairlie, Magnus Lofstrom

published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1B, Elsevier, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7653

The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Max Nathan

published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7606

Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7553

Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7467

Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye

published in: M. A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7460

Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn

published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (6), 1108-1134

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7436

Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Francesco Quatraro, Marco Vivarelli

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30, 277–305

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7417

Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Commitment and Mortgage Debt

Philippe Bracke, Christian Hilber, Olmo Silva

heavily revised version published as 'Mortgage debt and entrepreneurship' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103, 52 - 66