Abstract:We aim to contribute to the literature on entrepreneurship by examining the relationship between firms' age and their use of highly skilled workers, measured by employees with higher education. A panel data set of Norwegian firms is used. Based on population-averaged panel data regression, we find that newly established firms have a higher proportion of highly skilled workers than incumbent firms. A sensitivity analysis shows that this result holds for different correlation structures in the panel data, differ… Show more
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