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Job Quality by Entrepreneurial Spinoffs
This Danish study looks at whether entrepreneurial spinoffs are important drivers of industry dynamics. More precisely, the booklet investigates whether the quality of jobs in spinoff entrepreneurs are higher than for other entrepreneurs. It distinguishes spinoff firms by different types and differentiates between growing and declining industry-region clusters. It finds that spinoffs on average have higher wages, are more skill intensive, have higher sales per worker, and are more productive than non-spinoff entrepreneurial firms. The differences are more pronounced in growing clusters. An important feature of the analysis is that the entrepreneur is measured as an organic new firm, meaning new firms that are not the result of the restructuring or the organizing of a formally new firm. (Series: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - Study Paper - No. 102) [Subject: Labor Studies, Business]
Introduction to the Project
In this booklet, a short introduction to the Danish project "Employment Effects of Entrepreneurs" is presented. It explains the purpose of the project and then briefly describes the three papers that constitute the output of the project. It also discusses the results established in the project. (Series: The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit - Study Paper - No. 99) [Subject: Labor Studies, Business]
Job Creation and Job Types
This booklet extends earlier analyses of the job creation of start-ups vs. established firms by taking into consideration the educational content of the jobs created and destroyed. It defines education-specific measures of job creation and job destruction at the firm level, and it uses these to construct a measure of "surplus job creation" defined as jobs created on top of any simultaneous destruction of similar jobs in incumbent firms in the same region and industry. Using Danish employer-employee data from 2002 to 2007, which identifies the start-ups and which covers almost the entire private sector, these measures provide a more nuanced assessment of the role of entrepreneurial firms in t...
Entrepreneurs Versus Incumbents
What are the characteristics of jobs in entrepreneurial firms as compared to jobs in incumbent firms? Even though this question has been addressed by many researchers before, this study - based on research conducted in Denmark - provides new evidence to the field by examining the entrepreneur as the organic new firm. The majority of studies have focused on entrepreneurs as measured by small or new firms. Organic new firms are defined here as new firms that are not the result of restructurings or organizing existing or additional activities in a formally new firm. Moreover, the book considers entrepreneurial firms by different types and distinguishes between growing and declining industry-reg...
Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship
Although entrepreneurship has become a buzzword in the public debate, a coherent definition of entrepreneurship has not yet emerged. In this paper, we review and compare the most common theoretical definitions of entrepreneurship in economics and discuss their connection to the various empirical measures in use. We argue that entrepreneurship is best considered a multifaceted concept, and that the different empirical measures reflect different aspects of entrepreneurship. The relevance of this exercise is illustrated by the fact that in a cross-country comparison of entrepreneurship, we find that the relative ranking of countries depends crucially on the indicator used.
Inflation-targeting, Flexible Exchange Rates and Cacroeconomic Performance Since the Great Recession
Has inflation targeting (IT) conferred benefits in terms of economic growth on countries that followed this particular monetary policy strategy during the crisis period 2007-12? This paper answers this question in the affirmative. Countries with an IT monetary regime with flexible exchange rates weathered the crisis much better than countries with other monetary regimes, predominantly countries with fixed exchange rates. Part of this difference in growth performance reflects differences in export performance during the initial years of the crisis, which in turn can be explained by real exchange rate depreciations. However, IT seems also to confer other benefits on the countries above and beyond the effects from currency depreciation. Thomas Barnebeck Andersen and Nikolaj Malchow-Møller are in the Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark. Jens Nordvig is Head of Fixed Income Research Americas, Nomura Securities.
The Returns to Education in Entrepreneurship
The returns to education in self-employment are addressed in four different specifications of the relationship between log income and years of schooling. The specifications range from a standard Mincer equation with a constant percentage increase in income to an additional year of schooling to the most flexible specification with dummy variables for the different number of years of schooling split into different types of education. Based on the more flexible specifications, important non-linearities and heterogeneity in the returns to education in self-employment are found. These results are robust across different estimation methods: OLS; Heckit correction models to handle sample selection; and IV to deal with the potential endogeneity of years of schooling. Moreover, the results are insensitive to the use of different sample years, different definitions of self-employment, and different income measures for the self-employed.
