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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and business data : an introduction to several large, nationally-representative datasets

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009

describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses …, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained in Fairlie and Robb (2008). -- Entrepreneurship … ; self-employment ; business owners ; small businesses ; data …

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Skills and youth entrepreneurship in Africa : analysis with evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014

unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a …

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Labour costs and the decision to hire the first employee

Cockx, Bart; Desiere, Sam - 2023

Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced...

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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013

entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …

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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020

the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be …

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Innovative firms or innovative owners? : determinants of innovation in micro, small, and medium enterprises

Mel, Suresh de; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2009

and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have …

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Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya

McKenzie, David J.; Puerto, Susana - 2017

A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then...

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Credit constraints and productive entrepreneurship in Africa

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2011

productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa. -- credit constraints ; productive entrepreneurship …

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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

. -- informality ; small enterprises ; entrepreneurship …

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