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This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
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There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...
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leaving paid employment for self-employment. We think, that this is a special kind of knowledge spillover. We also control for …
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We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...
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), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political …
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In this work we seek to assess how perception variables affect on the timely decision to undertake in Chile, measured by the nascent entrepreneurship, ie, those entrepreneurs who are starting a new business, including any form of self-employment or commersialisation of all types of goods or...
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We propose a new methodology for identifying the causal effect of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Our quasi-experimental research design exploits religious minorities' strong attachment to religious ethics and the exogenous historical determination of...
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Ein Großteil der Neugründungen in Deutschland ist auf staatliche Förderung von Existenzgründern zurückzuführen. Dieser Anteil hat sich nach Einführung des als „Ich-AG“ bekannten Existenzgründungszuschusses Anfang 2003 stark erhöht. Die Erfolgsfaktorenforschung hat diese Form von...
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The paper contributes to the interpretation of entrepreneurship based on the effect of knowledge and the cultural …. Knowledge creation does not affect entrepreneurship rates, as its impact on entrepreneurship is long-lasting (it could reach … more or less 10 years) and not a short-term one. Simultaneously, knowledge impact affects negatively the self …
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economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in … order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based Economy. More concretely, political, institutional and social factors … have contributed negatively within this reality. As a consequence, the knowledge generation in this region is insufficient …
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