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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs through the Business Cycle
Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2011
We construct a simple model of occupational choice among agents with differing abilities. The fraction of agents creating new businesses who are low ability rises during recessions. Thus, cohorts born during recessions are on average lower quality: their businesses yield lower initial earnings,...
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
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Entrepreneurs: Jacks of all Trades or Hobos?
Astebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2007
Human capital investment theory suggests that entrepreneurs should be generalists, while those who work for others should be specialists; it also predicts higher incomes for entrepreneurs with generalist skills. An alternative view predicts that those with greater taste for variety are more...
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Motives for investment in human capital of children: evidence from Indonesian Family Life Survey Data
Raut, Lakshmi K.; Tran, Lien H. - EconWPA - 1998
Two alternative models of parental investments in children's human capital are considered and tested empirically using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield different predictions about the effect of children's...
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A consumption-based measure of the monetary rewards to entrepreneurship
Krichevskiy, Dmitriy - Department of Economics, Florida International University - 2010
Recent findings by Hamilton (Journal of Political Economy, 2000) suggest that the self-employed do not receive a monetary premium for the risk and uncertainty associated with business ownership. In this paper, I show that that income underreporting by entrepreneurs can explain the lack of...
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Japanese agriculture
Kiminami, Akira (ed.) - Farm Management Society of Japan / Annual Conference <2015>; … - 2019
Development in Japanese Agriculture from the Perspective of European Experience -- Chapter 6 Issues on Innovation in Japanese Farm … Business -- Chapter 7. Innovation by Young Generations in Farm Households -- Chapter 8. Women’s Advancement of Agriculture and … rural Society: Considerations on the Innovations by Women in Agriculture -- Chapter 9. The Role of Open Innovation and …
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VIOLACIÓN A LOS DERECHOS DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL: LA INCIDENCIA DEL INGRESO, LA CULTURA, LA EDUCACIÓN, LAS ORGANIZACIONES, LAS INSTITUCIONES Y LA INNOVACIÓN EN LA PIRATERÍA DE SOF...
Marquez, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
The target of this paper is to question the causes of software intellectual property rights violation. To solve this question, the author analyses how has evolved the economic literature of IPR violation showing that the traditional market variables do not fulfill the requirements to explain the...
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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003
national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …
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Protéger les méthodes commerciales liées à Internet : un frein au développement ?
Delzelle, Benoit - EconWPA - 2003
La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger des biens immatériels ou des idées ? N'est-ce pas menacer durablement le développement de la "nouvelle économie" ? N'est-ce pas brider l'activité inventive et...
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of … strengthening its role in knowledge spillovers to client industries. …
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