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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011

significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …

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Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017

This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...

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The pollution effects of mergers and acquisitions : asymmetry, disaggregation, and multilateralism

Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2011

This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...

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The impact of high temperatures on performance in work-related activities

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2023

reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age … players do. The effect of temperature on performance is smaller when there is more at stake. Our findings also suggest that …

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Premature deindustrialization through the lens of occupations : which jobs, why, and where?

Kunst, David - 2019 - Revision: August 2, 2019

A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...

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