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534 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5373
Creative Unemployment
Knut Røed, Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
revised version published as 'Job loss and Entrepreneurship' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (5), 727-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5370
Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 394-409
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5305
Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Christian Schwarz, Jens Suedekum
revised version published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (1), 123-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5247
Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?
Simon Commander, Zlatko Nikoloski
published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 2 (2), Article 3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5225
Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
Kerry L. Papps, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 310-319
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5212
Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?
Timothy Bates, Magnus Lofstrom, Lisa Servon
published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2011, 25 (3), 255 - 266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5203
Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?
Robert W. Fairlie, Kanika Kapur, Susan Gates
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 146-162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5202
Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Markus Poschke
superseded by DP 7991.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5159
Economic Governance of MFIs: Inside the Black Box
Thankom Gopinath Arun, Samuel Annim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5071
Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S.: Do Cohort and Within Race Differences Exist?
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 25-39
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5053
Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry
Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 559-578
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5052
Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government
Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz
published in: Small Business Economics, 2012, 39 (1), 119-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5024
School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Oliver Falck, Ludger Woessmann
published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (2), 459-478
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4988
Market Imperfections and Firm-Sponsored Training
Matteo Picchio, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 712-722
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4976
The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Henrik Ohlsson, Per Broomé, Pieter Bevelander
published in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2012, 24 (5-6), 405-423
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4893
"Entrepreneurs out of Necessity": A Snapshot
Markus Poschke
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (7), 658-663
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4805
Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz
published in: Maria Minniti (ed.) 2011, The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data, Oxford, pp.181-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4778
What's the Difference?! Gender, Personality, and the Propensity to Start a Business
Marina Furdas, Karsten Kohn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4731
The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
Jozef Konings, Stijn Vanormelingen
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 485-497
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4729
Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Peter Debaere, Holger Görg, Horst Raff
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 78-102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4678
Outsourcing and Technological Change
Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach, Nachum Sicherman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4657
Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Subal C. Kumbhakar, Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Lesley Potters, Marco Vivarelli, Peter Voigt
published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 37, 125-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4578
Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
Eric Bartelsman, John C. Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta
published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 305-334
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4577
Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz
published as 'Institutions and female entrepreneurship' in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 37 (4), 397-415
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4568
Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner
published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 358-361
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4560
Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Magnus Lofstrom
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 25-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4541
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 890–903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4539
Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Magnus Lofstrom
published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (4), 933-952
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4531
Does Formality Improve Micro-Firm Performance? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES Program
Pablo Fajnzylber, William F. Maloney, Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4526
Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12(2), 492-521
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4487
Co-determination and Innovation
Kornelius Kraft, Jörg Stank, Ralf Dewenter
published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (1), 145 - 172
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4477
Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!
Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (6), 862-875
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4441
The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential
Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk, Karsten Kohn
published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2010, 130 (1), 117-131
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4396
Better Means More: Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Saul Estrin, Julia Korosteleva, Tomasz Mickiewicz
substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5481
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4372
Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover: The Case of Ukraine
Alexander Muravyev, Oleksandr Talavera, Olga Bilyk, Bogdana Grechaniuk
published in: Eastern European Economics, 2010, 48(2), 5-24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4261
The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman
published as 'Do Higher Costs Spur Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives? Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (3), 529–550
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4256
Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia
Marcela Eslava, John C. Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2013, 16 (1), 135-158.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4250
Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns
Helge Berglann, Espen R. Moen, Knut Røed, Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 180-193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4245
Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: Handbook of Research on Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4226
Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth
Roger Bandick, Holger Görg
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2010, 43(2), 547-573
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4211
Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Robin Douhan, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4205
Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Christine Harbring, Bernd Irlenbusch
revised and extended version published in: Management Science, 2011, 57, 611 - 627
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4195
Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?
Simon C. Parker
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4190
Social Incentives in the Workplace
Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (2), 417-458
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4130
Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data
Christopher Ferrall, Kjell G. Salvanes, Erik Ø. Sørensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4123
Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?
Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz
published in: Grzegorz Kolodko and Jacek Tomkiewicz (eds.), 20 Years of Transformation: Achievements, Problems and Perspectives, New York: Nova, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4052
Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets
Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4039
Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns
Alexander K. Koch, Albrecht Morgenstern
published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Topics in Theoretical Economics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3997
Latina Entrepreneurship
Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates
published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 33 (4), 427-439
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3974
Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Christopher Dawson, Andrew Henley, Paul L. Latreille
published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3962
Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3953
The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatized Firms in Sweden
Motasam Tatahi, Almas Heshmati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3940
Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
Andrew E. Clark
published in: Ed Diener, John Helliwell, and Danny Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3938
Are Young and Old Workers Harmful for Firm Productivity?
Thierry Lallemand, François Rycx
published in: De Economist, 2009, 157 (3), 273-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3933
Small Business Economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian Reservation
David A. Benson, Aaron Lies, Albert A. Okunade, Phanindra V. Wunnava
published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36 (2), 157-168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3901
A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns
Ernst Fehr, Lorenz Götte, Christian Zehnder
published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2009, 1, 355 - 384
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3900
Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patterns
Marco Caliendo, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3888
Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series
David Neumark, Brandon Wall, Junfu Zhang
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 16-29
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3862
On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations
Pascal Courty, Gerald Marschke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3724
Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis
Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Bytchkova, Saul Estrin
substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5504
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3718
Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb
published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 33 (4), 375-395
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3641
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Hessel Oosterbeek, Mirjam C. van Praag, Auke IJsselstein
published as "The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship skills and motivation" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 442-454
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3612
Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12.1, Article 4.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3511
Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
published in: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar (eds.) International Differences in Entrepreneurship, NBER, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3488
Mexican-American Entrepreneurship
Robert W. Fairlie, Christopher Woodruff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3402
A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007
Philippe Askenazy
revised and updated version published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2013, 37 (2), 323-347
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3340
Performance Spillovers and Social Network in the Workplace: Evidence from Rural and Urban Weavers in a Chinese Textile Firm
Takao Kato, Pian Shu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3334
Outsourcing and Technological Innovations: A Firm-Level Analysis
Ann P. Bartel, Saul Lach, Nachum Sicherman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3211
Jobless Growth through Creative Destruction: Ireland’s Industrial Development Path 1972–2003
Qi Li, Patrick Paul Walsh, Ciara Whelan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3208
Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Almas Heshmati
published in: Tocha (ed.), Development Economics Research Trends, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3156
African Americans' Pursuit of Self-Employment
Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates
published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (1), 73-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3105
Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, and the Choice of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence from New Japanese Data
Takao Kato, Hideo Owan
published as 'Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Theory and evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 80 (3), 375-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3065
The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)
John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (3), 521 - 531
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3014
What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter H. Versloot
published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 29 (4), 351-382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2927
Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture
Michael Kosfeld, Ferdinand von Siemens
published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2011, 42 (1), 23–43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2818
Entrepreneurship in the UK
David G. Blanchflower, Chris Shadforth
published in: Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2007, 3 (4), 257–364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2801
How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, Jan Svejnar
published in: Review of Development Economics, 12(1), 193-208
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2744
Defending Gibrat’s Law as a Long-Run Regularity
Francesca Lotti, Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli
published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32(1), 31-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2707
Technology and the Demand for Skill: An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
John M. Abowd, John C. Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, Kevin Lee McKinney, L. Kristin Sandusky
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2671
The “Dynamic” of Job Competition during the ICT Revolution
Arnaud Chéron, François Langot, Eva Moreno-Galbis
published in: Economica, 2010, 78 (309), 159-186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2637
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
Simon Commander, Jan Svejnar
revised version published as 'Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 309 - 337
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2566
Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Alicia Robb, Robert W. Fairlie
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 827-858
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2549
Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments
Philippe Askenazy, Eva Moreno-Galbis
published in: LABOUR, 2007, 21 (2), 265–301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2506
Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities
Holger Görg, Michael Henry, Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42( 1), 332-348
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2423
Relative Rewards within Team-Based Compensation
Bernd Irlenbusch, Gabriele K. Ruchala
published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (2), 141-167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2396
On the “Adverse Selection” of Organizations
Matthias Kräkel
published as 'On Adverse Selection of Technologies ' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, 164 (2), 343-355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2391
Firm Size, Economic Situation and Influence Activities
Matthias Kräkel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2382
The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start
Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2011, 27 (1), 31-46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2353
When Knowledge Is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms
James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(2), 201-229
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2351
Wage Dynamics and Promotions Inside and Between Firms
António Dias da Silva, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (4), 1513-1548
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2321
Innovative Work Practices, Information Technologies and Working Conditions: Evidence for France
Philippe Askenazy, Eve Caroli
published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49(4), 544-565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2294
ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India
Rakesh Basant, Simon Commander, Rupert Harrison, Naercio Menezes-Filho
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2249
Resource Allocation and Firm Scope
Guido Friebel, Michael Raith
published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 1-33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2188
Wages, Employment, and Capital in Capitalist and Worker-Owned Firms
John H. Pencavel, Luigi Pistaferri, Fabiano Schivardi
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 23-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1994
Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?
David N. Margolis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1963
Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment
René Böheim, Ulrike Muehlberger
published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 182-95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1940
Social Networks in the Boardroom
Francis Kramarz, David Thesmar
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(4), 780-807
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1913
Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, John Van Reenen
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (1), 121-159
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1890
Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
Lorenz Götte, David B. Huffman
published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1844
Tournaments and Multiple Productive Inputs: The Case of Performance Enhancing Drugs
Kai A. Konrad
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