Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
The authors demonstrate within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also leads, through a thick- market externality, to higher rates of job creation for high-skilled labor as well as average match productivity.
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