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the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. The subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is also explored …
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importance of human capital in triggering serial entrepreneurship, but the kinds of experiences driving direct and latent serial …
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This paper investigates whether a high level of new business formation in a region stimulates employment in that region. The study looks at the lag structure of these effects, using a data set covering a fairly large time span (1982-2002). The indirect supply-side effects of new firm births,...
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The present paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, as measured by the variation in business … outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average. Although the nature … of entrepreneurship may be different in the Portuguese case, due to a high proportion of "micro-businesses" created for …
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In this paper we investigate whether small-scale businesses face financial constraints that affect their survival. We develop a model of moral hazard in which financial constraints arise endogenously. The model predicts that higher private assets relax financial constraints and have a positive...
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In this paper we investigate the link between entrepreneurship and financial constraints. We develop a dynamic partial …
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This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) that covers firms in several countries of Western Europe as well as in the transition countries of Eastern Europe, our analysis...
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