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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie F. - 2008
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265025
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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The geography and determinants of entrepreneurship
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2008
Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational …
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Geographic allocation of OSS contributions: the role of institutions and culture
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2009
So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a public, collaborative manner. High quality OSS products like...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273829
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Institutions, culture, and open source
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2010
The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273832
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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272276
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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The value orientation of entrepreneurs in challenging institutional contexts: Insights from a unique historical episode
Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
institutional contexts. However, most evidence exists for contexts with more or less entrepreneurship-facilitating and stable … framework conditions for entrepreneurship. In both contexts, entrepreneurs are challenged either by external resistance toward … literature is not an artefact of stable entrepreneurship-facilitating institutional framework conditions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389628
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Engagement in entrepreneurship in emerging economies : interactive effects of individual-level factors and institutional
Lim, Dominic S. K.; Oh, Chang Hoon; De Clercq, Dirk - In: International business review : the official journal of … 25 (2016) 4, pp. 933-945
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514104
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The collaborative innovation bloc : a new mission for Austrian economics
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - In: The review of Austrian economics 32 (2019) 4, pp. 295-320
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