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534 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. 7885
Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Sumon K. Bhaumik, Ying Zhou
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. 7851
The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Almas Heshmati
published in: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2015, 23 (3), 407-421.
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
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. 7695
Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea
Junghee Han, Almas Heshmati
published in: International Journal of Innovation Management, 2016, 20(7), 235-257.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7678
Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007
Pierpaolo Parrotta, Nina Smith
published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2018, 147 (2), 445-467
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. 7660
The Consequences of a Piece Rate on Quantity and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment
John S. Heywood, W. Stanley Siebert, Xiangdong Wei
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. 7636
Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries
Sarmistha Pal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7613
Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes
Pierpaolo Parrotta, Nina Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7611
Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries
Liugang Sheng, Dennis T. Yang
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. 7601
Better Workers Move to Better Firms: A Simple Test to Identify Sorting
Cristian Bartolucci, Francesco Devicienti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7553
Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia
Zuzana Brixiova, Mthuli Ncube
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7542
Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel
substantially revised version published as 'Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, Survival, and the Role of their Parents', in: Small Business Economics, 2016, 46 (1), 93-114 ( co-authored by Alexandra Schmucker,)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7541
The Economics of First-Contract Mediation
Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7519
Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship
Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2015, 16 (5) 482-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7487
Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
Almas Heshmati, Flávio Lenz-Cesar
published in: Research Evaluation, 2015, 24(3), 293-311.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7467
Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland
Zuzana Brixiova, 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. 7426
Multitasking and Wages
Dennis J. Snower, Dennis Görlich
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7402
A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Gustavo Henrique de Andrade, Miriam Bruhn, David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7346
Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export: A Real Option Approach
Wim Naudé, Thomas Gries, Natasa Bilkic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7338
The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined
Natasa Bilkic, Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7302
Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Luca Colombo, Herbert Dawid, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49, 513-531.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7298
The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Aaron K. Chatterji, Kenneth Y. Chay, Robert W. Fairlie
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (3), 507-561
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7284
Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time
Ulrich Kaiser, Bettina Müller
published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 45 (4), 787-804
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7277
Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model
Almas Heshmati, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Kai Sun
published in: Energy Economics, 2014, 45, 491-500.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7271
Authority and Incentives in Organizations
Matthias Kräkel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7241
Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France
Luis Garicano, Claire Lelarge, John Van Reenen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7206
Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship
Hans K. Hvide, Georgios A. Panos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7146
Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Sascha O. Becker, Hans K. Hvide
published as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021, 26 (1), 163-185
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7138
'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data
Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez, Ricard Gil
published as 'Outsourcing of Peripheral Services: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Plant-Level Data' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 328-344
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7136
U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
Harriet Duleep
published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7121
Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship
Knut Røed, Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
revised version published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2014, 26 (4), 430-448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7081
Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Industrial and Corporate Change 2014, 23 (4), 1121-1140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7079
Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia
Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita K. Almeida, Rebekka Grun, Mahdi Barouni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7057
Heterogeneity in Subjective Wellbeing: An Application to Occupational Allocation in Africa
Paolo Falco, William F. Maloney, Bob Rijkers, Mauricio Sarrias
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7050
Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2014, 47 (3), 223-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044
Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag
published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6984
High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark
Annalisa Cristini, Tor Eriksson, Dario Pozzoli
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (3), 232-266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6973
Does Labor Diversity Affect Firm Productivity?
Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli, Mariola Pytlikova
revised version published as 'Labor Diversity and Firm Productivity' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 144 -179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6896
Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 106: 199-210
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6895
What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29(1), 48-82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6875
Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni
published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 55-59
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6819
The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Frank M. Fossen, Tobias J. M. Büttner
revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 66-84
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6740
Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
Matthew J. Lindquist, Joeri Sol, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 32 (2), 269–296
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6731
Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Mirjam C. van Praag
revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6677
How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results
Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, Mark Regets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6635
Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, Julie M. Wulf
published in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (4), 824–844
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6568
Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Anne Busch, Elke Holst
shorter German version published in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2013, 42 (4), 315-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6564
On the Organizational Structure of Multinational Firms: Which Sourcing Mode for Which Input?
Jens Suedekum, Verena Nowak, Christian Schwarz
revised version published as 'Asymmetric spiders: Supplier heterogeneity and the organization of firms' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 49 (2), 663 - 684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6513
Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective
Marco Vivarelli
published as 'Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2013, 22, 1453-1495
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6512
The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 76-97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6442
The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 122-50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6381
Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Christian Pfeifer, Joachim Wagner
published in: Contemporary Economics, 2014, 8 (1), 25-49
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6349
Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age
Daniel Fackler, Claus Schnabel, Joachim Wagner
published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 683-700
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6343
The Firm as the Locus of Social Comparisons: Internal Labor Markets versus Up-or-Out
Emmanuelle Auriol, Guido Friebel, Frauke Lammers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6326
Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alina Rusakova
published in: DIW-Economic Bulletin, 2012, 3, 17-26.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6288
Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Eren Inci, Simon C. Parker
published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 232-258
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6257
How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?
Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3) part 1, 711-750
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6219
Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Takao Kato, Pian Shu
revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 37–50
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6217
The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
Helmut Fryges, Karsten Kohn, Katrin Ullrich
published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53 (S1), 251-277
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6211
Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms
Benjamin Fomba Kamga
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6200
Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Chihmao Hsieh, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6193
Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, Zuzana Brixiova, Leonce Ndikumana
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6166
It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (2), 249-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6109
Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
Michael P. Pflüger, Stephan Russek
published in revised form in: S. Beugelsdijk , S. Brakman, H. van Ees and H. Garretsen (eds.), Firms in the International Economy - Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business, MIT-Press 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6103
Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates, Simon C. Parker
published as 'Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others: Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-specific Barriers' in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29(2), 232–251
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6062
Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Darja Reuschke, Maarten van Ham
published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2013, 45 (5), 1219-1239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6054
Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms
Liugang Sheng, Dennis T. Yang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6001
Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob R. Munch, Jan Rose Skaksen
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121, 517-546.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5975
Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?
Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2015, 24(3), 204-222
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5967
Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints under Labour Market Discrimination
Paul Frijters, Tao Sherry Kong, Xin Meng
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5899
HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces: Evidence from the 2004 WERS
W. Stanley Siebert, Fei Peng, Yasheng Maimaiti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5882
Surviving the Crisis: Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland
Olivier Godart, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley
published in: The World Economy, 2012, 35 (10), 1305-1321
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5842
Working in Family Firms: Less Paid but More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data
Andrea Bassanini, Eve Caroli, Antoine Rebérioux, Thomas Breda
revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 433-466
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5794
Workforce Reorganization and the Worker
Ben Kriechel, Gerard A. Pfann
published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1719-1729
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5790
Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 319-324
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5770
For Benevolence and for Self-Interest: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations
Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Ute Stephan
published in: Entrepreneurship and Practice, 2013, 37 (3), 479-504
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5725
Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Robert W. Fairlie
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 207-231
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5644
Consistency in Organization (updated)
Ekkehart Schlicht
earlier version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5541
Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries
Michael P. Pflüger, Stephan Russek
revised version published in: Open Economies Review, 2013, 24 (5), 963-976
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5518
Collective Bargaining under Non-Binding Contracts
Sabien Dobbelaere, Roland Iwan Luttens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5504
Institutions and Entry: A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia
Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Bytchkova, Saul Estrin
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (5), 1740-1749
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5481
Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva, Tomasz Mickiewicz
published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2013, 28 (4), 564–580
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5459
Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start"
Frank M. Fossen
revised version published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2014, 16 (1), 269-312
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5458
Job Creation by Firms in Denmark
Rikke Ibsen, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5423
Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
Annemarie Künn-Nelen, Andries de Grip, Didier Fouarge
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1172-1191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5419
Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
Nidhiya Menon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5394
Relational Contracts and the Economic Well-Being of Nations
Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael P. Pflüger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5391
Hierarchical Organization and Inequality in an Economy with an Implicit Market for Productive Time
Bertrand Candelon, Arnaud Dupuy
revised version published as 'Hierarchical Organization and Performance Inequality: Evidence from Professional Cycling' in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (4), 1207-1236
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5387
Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries
Michael P. Pflüger, Stephan Russek
published in revised form in: Review of International Economics, 2014, 22 (1), 170-188
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