Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73244 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 0313
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics, Linz
Abstract: 
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an 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 leads, through a thick-market externality, to higher rates of job creation for high-skilled labor as well as average match productivity. We provide empirical evidence to support our argument.
Subjects: 
Matching
Education
Start-up costs
Venture capital
Bureaucratic hurdles
JEL: 
J24
D73
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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