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Innovation and education: Is there a "nerd effect"?
Goldbach, Stefan - 2012
This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than … economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation … conducted for entrepreneurs with university degree and practical education. The results suggest that education matters for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323729
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270590
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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261628
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Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293727
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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294544
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Entrepreneurial school dropouts: A model on signalling, education and entrepreneurship
Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik Baumgarten - 2012
asymmetric information. The model shows that, in a labour market where education is used as a signalling device, an imperfect … relationship between productivity in education and in the labour market can lead to an equilibrium where a fraction of the high … is prediction is confirmed empirically: Individuals combining low education with high ability have the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330275
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Job creation by firms in Denmark
Ibsen, Rikke; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels Christian - 2011
In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the question if it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributing much less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277271
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The role of education in self-employment success
Kangasharju, Aki; Pekkala, Sari - 2001
This paper analyses the effect of the education of the self-employed on the success of their firms during economic … the self-employed with any level of education. Exit probability is lower for the highly educated during bust, but higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290627
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2009
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325694