IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Digital Entrepreneurship' in: Liebregts, W., van den Heuvel, WJ., van den Born, A. (eds), Data Science for Entrepreneurship. Classroom Companion: Business. Springer, Cham, 2023, 279-303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13526

Minimum Wage and Financially Distressed Firms: Another One Bites the Dust

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira, Hélder Costa, Miguel Portela

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 24, 102088

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13491

Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess

Steffen Künn, Christian Seel, Dainis Zegners

published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 1218 - 1232

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13486

Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean

Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster, Kevin Hope

published in: International Journal of Tourism Research, 2021, 23 (3), 378-400

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13436

Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13414

The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah

Ege Can, Frank M. Fossen

revised version published as 'The Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements and Different Types of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Utah and Massachusetts' in: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2022, 11 (2/3), 223-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13373

Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts

David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13327

Wage Growth Distribution and Changes over Time: 2001-2018

Guyonne Kalb, Jordy Meekes

published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54 (1), 76-93

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13311

The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Robert W. Fairlie

published as 'The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social-distancing restrictions' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727-740

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285

Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation

John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13256

Hospital Resources: Persistent Reallocation under Price Changes

Florian Wozny

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13209

Entrepreneurship among Low-, Mid- and High-Income Workers in South America: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Jorge Velilla, José Alberto Molina, Raquel Ortega

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13187

The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(4), 1819-1836

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13180

2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study

Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber Almenberg

revised version published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, 46 (1), 21-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13173

Tenancy by the Entirety and the Value of Wealth Insurance for Entrepreneurs

Jeffrey Traczynski

published in: Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, 2020, 5 (2), 337 - 359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13130

Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Sergei Guriev

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102899

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13076

Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data

Andres Drenik, Simon Jäger, Pascuel Plotkin, Benjamin Schoefer

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 206–216.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13033

Does Working at a Start-Up Pay Off?

Daniel Fackler, Lisa Hölscher, Claus Schnabel, Antje Weyh

published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (4), 2211-2233

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13029

Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-textuThe al Information for Startup Performance Prediction

Ulrich Kaiser, Johan Moritz Kuhn

published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2020, 14, e00179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13015

Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation

Alex Bryson, Harald Dale-Olsen

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2021, 49, 41-65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13014

The Effect of Immigration on Business Dynamics and Employment

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, Alexander Abraham

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12997

State Medicaid Expansion and the Self-Employed

Jun Yeong Lee, John V. Winters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12970

Do Financial Constraints Affect the Composition of Workers in a Firm?

Robert Breunig, Diana Hourani, Sasan Bakhtiari, Elisabetta Magnani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12943

Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandran

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12936

Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises: A Review

Sasan Bakhtiari, Robert Breunig, Elisabetta Magnani, Yinjunjie (Jacquelyn) Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12926

Enterprising Women in Southern Africa: When Does Land Ownership Matter?

Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye, Fiona Tregenna

published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2020, 41 (1), 37 - 51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12878

Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francesco Amodio, Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12841

Does Solo Self-Employment Serve as a 'Stepping Stone' to Employership?

Michael Leith Cowling, Mark Wooden

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101942

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12809

Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Thomas Breda, Alex Bryson, John Forth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12802

Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs

Felix Wellschmied, Emircan Yurdagul

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 39, 79-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12761

Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57 (4), 1783-1800

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12755

Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 517-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12742

What Makes an Employer?

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published as 'Personality characteristics and the decision to hire' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2022, 31 (3), 736-761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12690

Catching up or Lagging Behind? The Long-Term Business and Innovation Potential of Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Martin Weissenberger

published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (10), 1-14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12607

Entrepreneurial Persistence beyond Survival: Measurement and Determinants

Marco Caliendo, Maximilian Göthner, Martin Weißenberger

published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2020, 58 (3), 617-647.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12598

Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth, Helen Gray, Lucy Stokes

published in: Industrial Relations, 2020, 59 (4), 532 - 562,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12555

September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants

Chunbei Wang, Magnus Lofstrom

published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2020, 46 (1), 5 - 33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12511

Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data

Benoit Dostie, Mohsen Javdani

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2020, 59 (2), 275-315.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12499

Entrepreneurship over the Business Cycle in the United States: A Decomposition

Frank M. Fossen

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 1837-1855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12446

Talking about Performance or Paying for it? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Kathrin Manthei, Dirk Sliwka, Timo Vogelsang

published as 'Talking About Performance or Paying for It? A Field Experiment on Performance Reviews and Incentives' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 2198-2216

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12445

Who Gains from Active Learning in Higher Education?

Giulio Bosio, Federica Origo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12398

Business Culture: The Role of Personal and Impersonal Business Relationships on Market Efficiency

Manuel Munoz-Herrera, Ernesto Reuben

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12367

Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Markus Poschke

published online in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 12 September 2024, 103684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12336

Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe

Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 56, 877–901

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12325

The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli, Daniel Verch

published in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105787

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12267

Helping under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives

Anastasia Danilov, Bernd Irlenbusch, Christine Harbring

published in: in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2019, 162, 120-135

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12261

New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies: Matching Estimates and Their Robustness

Marco Caliendo, Stefan Tübbicke

published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59 (4), 1605-1631

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12252

Spillovers and Substitutability in Production

Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12245

Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms: Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy

Mariya Aleksynska, Anastasia Bastrakova, Natalia Nikolaevna Kharchenko

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12191

Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data

Ulrich Kaiser, Johan Moritz Kuhn

published as 'Spin doctors vs the spawn of capitalism: Who founds university and corporate startups?' in: Research Policy, 2021, 50 (10), 104347 (with Alex Coad)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12190

Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee

published in: I. Ganguli, S. Kahn, M.MacGarvie (eds.), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 149-172.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12189

Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer: Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?

Andrew Henley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12147

Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates

Zhengyu Cai, Heather M. Stephens, John V. Winters

published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (3), 611-629

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12057

Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy

Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12042

Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics

Olga Demidova, Alena Kolyagina, Francesco Pastore

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 244-258.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12035

Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector

David Audretsch, Marian Hafenstein, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch

published as 'Microfirms and innovation in the service sector' in: Small Business Economics, 2020, 55 (4), 997-1018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12009

Who Creates Stable Jobs? Evidence from Brazil

Peter Brummund, Laura Connolly

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 82 (3), 540 - 563

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11965

HPWS in the Public Sector: Are There Mutual Gains?

Michael White, Alex Bryson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11941

Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Wim Naudé

published in: Journal of International Affairs, 2019, 72 (1), 143 - 158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11880

Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin

Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (1), 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11856

Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Sevrin Waights

published in: Urban Studies, 2022, 59 (2) 281-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11819

Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan, Artjoms Ivlevs

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2019, 34 (4), 625-645

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11750

Pathways to Formalization: Going beyond the Formality Dichotomy

Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Jamele Rigolini, Claudia Ruiz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11697

The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms

Dany Bahar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11662

High-Growth Entrepreneurship

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee

published as 'Start-Ups, Job Creation, and Founder Characteristics' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28 (6), 1637–1672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11650

Skills, Scope, and Success: An Empirical Look at the Start-up Process in Creative Industries in Germany

Karsten Kohn, Solvejg A. Wewel

published in: Creativity and Innovation Management, 2018, 27 (3), 295-318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11598

Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data

Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoit Dostie, Robert Gagné, Jonathan Paré

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2021, 54 (4), 1609-1637.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11556

Do Startups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers?

Daniel Fackler, Michaela Fuchs, Lisa Hölscher, Claus Schnabel

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (5), 1123-1148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11501

Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions

Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2018, 33(6), 742-761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11500

Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence

Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg, Yama Temouri

published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (344), 663-688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11400

The Determinants of Young Firms Growth in Tunisia

Hassan Arouri, Adel Ben-Youssef, Francesco Quatraro, Marco Vivarelli

published as 'Drivers of Growth in Tunisia: Young Firms vs Incumbents' in: Small Business Economics, 2020, 54, 323–340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11399

The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance

John Forth, Alex Bryson

published as 'Management practices and SME performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11387

Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (3), 709 - 732

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11365

The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance

Lukas Kiessling, Jonas Radbruch, Sebastian Schaube

substantially revised version published as ' Self-Selection of Peers and Performance' in Management Science, 2022, 68 (11), 7793 - 8514

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11332

Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück, Clotilde Mahe, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11303

Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship

Hans K. Hvide, Paul Oyer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11258

Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation

Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen

revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 48, 253-289.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11195

Cities and Entrepreneurs over Time: Like a Horse and Carriage?

Wim Naudé

revised version published as 'Urbanisation and Entrepreneurship in Development: Like a Horse and Carriage? 'in: Dastbaz,M., Naudé, W. and Manoochehri, J. (eds.), Smart Futures, Challenges of Urbanisation, and Social Sustainability, Springer, 2018, 29 - 47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11194

Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany

Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11155

How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-ups?

Guoqian Xi, Jörn Block, Frank Lasch, Frank Robert, Roy Thurik

published as 'The survival of business takeovers and new venture start-ups' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (3), 797 - 826

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11112

Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?

Alex Bryson

published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11108