What Explains the Survival Gap of Pushed and Pulled Corporate Spin-offs?

Vera Rocha; Anabela Carneiro; Celeste Varum

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.11.029

What Explains the Survival Gap of Pushed and Pulled Corporate Spin-offs?

Vera Rocha
, Anabela Carneiro
, Celeste Varum

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Abstract

Unconditionally, pushed spin-offs are found to survive longer than their pulled counterparts. Using matched employer-employee data and novel multivariate decomposition techniques, we show that pushed spin-offs’ relative survival advantage is mostly explained by their larger human capital endowments at entry.

Original language	English
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	126
Pages (from-to)	127-130
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0165-1765
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.11.029
Publication status	Published - Jan 2015

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title = "What Explains the Survival Gap of Pushed and Pulled Corporate Spin-offs?",

abstract = "Unconditionally, pushed spin-offs are found to survive longer than their pulled counterparts. Using matched employer-employee data and novel multivariate decomposition techniques, we show that pushed spin-offs{\textquoteright} relative survival advantage is mostly explained by their larger human capital endowments at entry.",

keywords = "Spin-offs, Entrepreneurship, Firm survival, Labor mobility, Human capital",

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