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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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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Why do Employees Leave Their Jobs for Self-Employment? – The Impact of Entrepreneurial Working Conditions in Small Firms

Werner, Arndt; Moog, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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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The Dynamics of Self-employment in a Developing Country: Evidence from India

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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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Variables perceptuales y emprendimiento naciente en Chile: oportunidad versus necesidad

Lennon Sabatini, Joaquin; Franetovic Parker, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

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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The Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Religious Minorities from the Former Holy Roman Empire

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung

Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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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Knowledge and Culture on Entrepreneurship

Petrakis, Panagiotis; Kostis, Pantelis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

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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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 …

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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,...

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The dynamics of Agglomeration: Evidence from Ireland and Portugal

Barrios, Salvador; Bertinelli, Luisito; Strobl, Eric; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between 1985 and 1998 implementing Dumais, Ellison and Glaeser (2002)'s methodology. Using comparable and exhaustive micro-level data sets, we find that industries tend to be subject...

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