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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2007
the effect of covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247889
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New Firm Survival and Human Capital
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252210
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The Determinants of New-firm Survival across Regional Economies
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine; Zhang, Ting - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006
Motivated by differences in new-firm survival across regions, this paper explores the impact of regional human capital on new-firm survival rates. New-firm survival is interpreted through formation rates of surviving versus closed firms in the service sector. By incorporating knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252214
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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824127
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and 2003) containing over 20,000 observations are used. Other than demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765251
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Determinants of entrepreneurship in Europe
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
This paper presents an Eclectic Framework explaining (developments in and determinants of) entrepreneurship … the demand for entrepreneurship on the one hand, with those influencing the supply of entrepreneurs on the other hand. It … entrepreneurship can be shifted. In its empirical part the present paper estimates a multinomial logit using survey data from the 15 EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765270
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Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in Cities
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765277
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Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765281
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Latent and actual entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: some recent developments
Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
and actual entrepreneurship. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education, the set of covariates … this variable in both latent and actual entrepreneurship appears to be even more counterintuitive in 2004 than in 2000: it … has no impact on actual entrepreneurship and is positively related to latent entrepreneurship. Administrative complexities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765289
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Entrepreneurship in the EU: to wish and not to be
Grilo, Isabel; Irigoyen, Jesus Maria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005
of demographic and other variables on latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the … is the lack of explanatory power of the perception of lack of available financial support in the latent entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765290