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Comparing Wage Gains from Small and Mass Scale Immigrant Legalization Programs

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018

data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) for data on immigrants who were legalized based on family ties or small …-scale legalization programs, and the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) for data on immigrants legalized by the IRCA. Estimates suggest …-in-Difference-Difference regressions with National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979 cohort and 1997 cohort) comparison groups suggest similar results. We …

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

Henley, Andrew - 2019

Only a minority of micro-businesses create jobs for others. This paper addresses whether personal characteristics and resources of the microbusiness owner or the local external economic environment are drivers of job creation. In the UK context of significant growth in self-employment but a...

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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego - 2019

A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...

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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA

Brown, J. David - 2015

Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...

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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?

Bryson, Alex - 2016

and employees who were surveyed as part of the 2011 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS).We find off …

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Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts

Brunello, Giorgio - 2014

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...

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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?

Baumann, Julian - 2016

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different...

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Measuring Small Business Dynamics and Employment with Private-Sector Real-Time Data

Kurmann, Andre; Lalé, Etienne; Ta, Lien - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of research using private-sector datasets to measure business dynamics and employment in real-time. Yet questions remain about the representativeness of these datasets and how to distinguish business openings and closings from sample churn – i.e.,...

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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies Through Business Apps Training : A Study of Small Firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

The lack of awareness of digital services and outcomes is a concern in business environments since small firms need to improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements....

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Artificial Intelligence and Reduced Smes' Business Risks. A Dynamic Capabilities Analysis During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was developed to capture the use of AI applications in...

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