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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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The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working on their own having no … prosperous dynamics. However, even the area of entrepreneurship at the margins seems to be a wide field. It highlights not only … the broad margins of entrepreneurship but also the fluent boarders between entrepreneurship and the informal sector on the …
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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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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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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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and incomes, the enormous heterogeneity of the category of entrepreneurship becomes evident. The span reaches from best …
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It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour market, or if those activities reflect new modes of labour market integration revealing new opportunities and markets, which are especially due in wide parts to the service and...
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entrepreneurship and asks for its overlapping with categories of self-employment and of innovation. Although these terms cover only … partially the same meanings, political discourse often equals the slogan to foster entrepreneurship and innovation with an … firms without further employees. An equation of entrepreneurship with innovation activities and in-creasing self …
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The discussion on entrepreneurship often treats entrepreneurs as agents of ideas of economic change and growth … context entrepreneurship has been treated as a rather homogenous category, internal differences were not in the focus of … academic talk. In public policy discourse entrepreneurship and the labour market category of self-employment are often used …
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