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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
2015
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of firms born in 1998 over their first decade of life, using variation across half a dozen northern European countries Austria, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the UK to pin down size effects. We find that a very small proportion of the smallest firms play a crucial role in accounting for cross-country differences in job growth. A closer analysis reveals that the initial size distribution and surviv…
Innovative methods on managing of resources in banks, caused by the influences of the current crisis on the working process of these institutions
2012
Current actions in the economic circles were significantly caused by the work of the banks, but they also affect significantly the work of the banks. Therefore, the focus of this paper is on perception the novelties which should be applied in the approach of the work of the bank institutions, with a main goal to show the changes in the methods of the organization’s work (financial). The working methods are comparative analysis and perception of the statistic results. The conclusion shows that the securitization, defending some positions which are considered as classic in the economy, hedging should be continuously and actively managed, and never should surface passiveness and leaving things…
Who turns to entrepreneurship later in life? - Push and pull in Finnish rural and urban areas
2014
Age is an important factor in entrepreneurship. The paths into entrepreneurship at a later age may be varied. Self-employment in later life may be either a form of partial retirement or a career option. Older individuals may also be pushed into self-employment. The focus of this paper is on the career choices of older individuals and their background motivations in Finland. The purpose is to analyse the factors and motives in terms of the push and pull dichotomy that lead individuals to enter self-employment at older ages in different types of labour markets in Finland, viz., rural and urban areas. Although some studies have focused on transitions to self-employment among older workers, que…