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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2017
Acs, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László; Lloyd, Ainsley - 2017
data with institutional components. Presenting data from the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI … understanding of entrepreneurship and a more precise means to measure it. In addition to yearly data and comparison, this 2017 … entrepreneurship: the GEDI and the Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity (TEA) measure. Whereas developed countries will be …
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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016
Acs, Zoltan; Szerb, László; Autio, Erkko - 2017
This brief captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship by measuring entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, and … aspirations at both the individual- and country-level. Featuring data from the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index … provides a tool to help policymakers and governments harness the power of entrepreneurship to address some of the economic …
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Entrepreneurial exit in real and imagined markets
Stam, Erik; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Zwan, Peter van der - 2009 - Version: October 2009
Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at all, or to give up these entrepreneurial intentions. This...
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The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams : evidence from a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants
Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Grilo, Isabel - 2007
Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350365
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Entrepreneurship and Culture
Freytag, Andreas - 2010
Culture and the Individual Entrepreneur -- Introducing Entrepreneurship and Culture -- Entrepreneurial Motivations … -- Entrepreneurial Culture, Regional Innovativeness and Economic Growth -- Transnational Cultural Differences -- Entrepreneurship and its … Nascent Entrepreneurship -- Explaining Cross-National Variations in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Protection and …
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The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants
Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Grilo, Isabel - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003408319
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Seeing the world with different eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian D. - 2008 - Revised version (v2.0)
Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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Entrepreneurial moral hazard in income insurance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2011
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
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The urban growth potential of second-generation migrant entrepreneurs : a sectoral study on Amsterdam
Baycan Levent, Tüzin; Nijkamp, Peter; Şahín, Medíha - 2009
particular the way – and the extent to which – the choice for entrepreneurship is made by higher-educated young ethnic …
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