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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses

Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

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Too Connected to Fail: The Effect of Alliance Network Structure on Farm Survival

Kirwan, Barrett E.; Martens, Andrea - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Exogenous, unobserved factors often confound the effects of alliance networks. More capable farmers might be less likely to exit and more likely to have a large number of alliances. In this case the negative correlation between alliance network size and exit likelihood is due to the unobserved...

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Labor mobility and entrepreneurship: Who do new firms employ?

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

Entrepreneurship is often claimed to be important for generating employment. However, the empirical evidence on the … relationship between entrepreneurship is not always convincing. Most of the studies that analyse the relationship between new firm …

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Who Creates Jobs?

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O’Connell, Stephen D - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 70, pp. 1-7

entrepreneurship in India is still evolving. It is worrying that there are too few entrepreneurs in India for its stage of development …. Yet there is no question that entrepreneurship works—cities and states that have embraced entrepreneurship have created … more jobs. However, the link between entrepreneurship and job growth is not automatic. Cities that have a higher quality of …

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The Contribution of "Empreender Project" to the Development of Micro and Small Enterprises' Networks at Santa Catarina State (Brazil)

Cardoso, Cristiane - Centro de Investigação sobre Espaços e … - 2011

In a globalized and increasingly competitive market, the organization of micro and small enterprises in network structures warrants the survival and competitiveness of companies and consequent development of the regions where they act. The “Empreender Project” has been a key factor for the...

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Understanding the Drivers of an ‘Entrepreneurial’ Economy : Lessons from Japan and the Netherlands

Okamuro, Hiroyuki; Van Stel, André; Verheul, Ingrid - Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, … - 2010

considerably less favourable to entrepreneurship, compared to Japan. On the other hand, cultural differences between the … Netherlands and Japan explain a substantial part of the difference in entrepreneurship rates between the two countries. …

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Secteur non structure "moderne" de yaounde.

E, Demol; G, Nihan - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1982

entrepreneurship. References. …

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China’s Institutional Architecture: A New Institutional Economics and Organization Theory Perspective on the Links between Local Governance and Local Enterprises

Hendrischke, Hans; Krug, Krug, B. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

We start our exploration of China’s institutional change by asking what the China experience can tell us about institutional economics and organization theory. We point to under-researched areas such as the formation of firms and the interplay between firms and local politics. Our findings...

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The evolution of high-technology in China after 1978: Towards technological entrepreneurship

Greeven, Greeven, M.J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004

entrepreneurship and identify computer hardware and software as key sectors for NTEs and high-technology development. …

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