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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017
This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957509
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Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy
Block, Jörn - 2014
, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052701
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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship
Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021
an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217544
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa : An Application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2013
entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077284
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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany
Kohn, Karsten - 2018
household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915340
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Does Higher Education Make You More Entrepreneurial? Causal Evidence from China
Huang, Bin; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu - 2021
Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228954
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity andDebt Financing of Young Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms.Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firmcharacteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explainingyoung firms’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486988
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 2011
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117119
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Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa : Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2014
of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053527
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Crises, COVID-19, and entrepreneurship : editorial
Batjargal, Bat; Jack, Sarah; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stam, Erik - In: Entrepreneurship theory and practice : ET&P 47 (2023) 3, pp. 651-661
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014324996