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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...

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Entrepreneurship and the Hidden Economy: An Extended Matching Model

Pugno, Maurizio; Lisi, Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper develops a labour market matching model in order to address the problem of the persistence of the hidden sector and of its regional concentration, as in Italy and in the enlarged Europe. The main novel features of the model are that entrepreneurial ability affects job productivity,...

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Entrepreneurship, job creation, income empowerment and poverty reduction in low-income economies

Adenutsi, Deodat E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The fundamental objective of this paper is to provide an insight into the role of entrepreneurship in job creation … the theoretical underpinnings of the linkages of entrepreneurship to job creation, income empowerment and poverty … cycle of poverty which has predominantly characterised low-income economies. The paper argues that entrepreneurship is the …

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The Underground Economy in a Matching Model of Endogenous Growth

Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of underground economy, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and...

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Entrepreneurship and its Link to Corruption: Assessment with the Most Recent World and Country-Group Data

Driouchi, Ahmed; Gamar, Alae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Entrepreneurship is an important intangible asset of nations. The relatively recent progress in its measurement, mainly … with the Global Entrepreneurship Development Index (GEDI), suggests that previous questions related to its determinants and … effect of corruption reduction on GEDI and thus the positive relationship between an intangible good that is entrepreneurship …

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Hofstede’s Cultural Indicators, Knowledge Economy and Entrepreneurship in Arab Countries

Driouchi, Ahmed; Gamar, Alae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Abstract: This paper looks at the links between cultural variables, knowledge indices and entrepreneurship in Arab … Eastern European Economies. The results show also that entrepreneurship is linked to cultural variables in Arab countries … economy and entrepreneurship in Arab countries. …

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