2005-01-09 papers

on Microfinance

Issue of 2005‒01‒09
one paper chosen by
Aastha Pudasainee and Iman van Lelyveld

Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries By Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas

Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries

By:	Belke, Ansgar (University of Hohenheim and IZA Bonn); Schaal, Andreas (University of Hohenheim)
Abstract:	Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany and Japan being possibly inferior to stockmarket based financial markets in turbulent times and when approaching the economic frontier. A cleavage is related to venture capital markets which are flourishing on Anglo- Saxon but not on German type financial markets. Venture capital is crucial for financing structural change, new firms and innovations and therefore possibly also nowadays for employment growth.
Keywords:	labor markets, venture capital, unemployment, new economy, panel data analysis
JEL:	E22 E24 E44 G24 G32
Date:	2004–12
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp1447&r=mfd

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