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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training
Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard to earnings, employment and occupational attainment. However, much less attention has been paid to the question of whether immigrants are as likely to receive employer-provided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565205
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The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Duffy, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762219
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Knowledge and Structure
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561473
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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective
Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003
The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076554
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Crescimento Econ\363mico no P\363s-guerra: os Casos de Espanha, Portugal e Irlanda
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2002
The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556858
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Ukraine Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2017
This report is one of four analytical pieces on Ukraine's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem developed by the … World Bank's Ukraine Technical Assistance on Innovation, supported by the Swedish Ukraine Financial and Enterprise Sector … Recovery and Growth Trust Fund. This report assesses the environment - or "ecosystem" -- that shapes innovation by firms in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645055
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Igniting Climate Entrepreneurship in Morocco : Findings from the Climate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2017
-growth, green entrepreneurship and innovation activity. At the same, this report also aims to increase the awareness of and support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248111
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Taking Stock April 2024 : Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship
World Bank Group - 2024
Viet Nam's economy slowed sharply in 2023, with three key drivers of growth -- exports, consumption, and private domestic investment -- is losing momentum. On the production side, the slowdown was led by industrial production. In the first quarter of 2024, the economy registered 5.66 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553802
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Promoting Innovative Entrepreneurship in Viet Nam : An Ecosystem Diagnostic
World Bank Group - 2023
national flagship Program 844 on "Supporting the National Innovation Initiative to 2025" toward building a pipeline of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454394