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From nascent to actual entrepreneurship: the effect of entry barriers

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

This exploratory study focuses on the conversion from nascent to actual entrepreneurship and the role of entry barriers … in this process. Using data for a sample of countries partici-pating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 … and 2004, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent entrepreneurship rate and the young business entre-preneurship …

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownershiop across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across economically developed nations have attracted the attentiion of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural rather than economic influences are assumed to play a decisive role. This paper deals with the influence of cutlural...

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Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development. This would imply a different scope for entrepreneurship policy across …

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The role of Dissatisfaction and Per Capita Income in Explaining Self-Employment across 15 European Countries

Wennekers, Sander; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Noorderhaven, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

This paper deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978-2000, within a framework of occupational choice, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and of per capita income. Using two different...

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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries

Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

In the present paper we address the relationship between the extent of business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focus upon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownership related to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...

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The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited

Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...

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