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Entrepreneurship in most advanced economies is in decline. This comes as a surprise: many scholars have expected an … upsurge in entrepreneurship. What are the reasons for the decline? In this paper I first document the extent of the decline in …-side view and moreover fail to explain why the decline in entrepreneurship is largely confined to economies with high levels of …
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,000 years ago. Our analysis reveals that regions in the former Roman part of Germany show a stronger entrepreneurship and … innovation culture today, evident by higher levels of quantity and quality entrepreneurship and innovation. The data indicate …
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Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...
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Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...
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We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the … long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development …
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239493
index developed by the World Bank in its Doing Business report series. To measure entrepreneurship we use the World Bank … entrepreneurship for an international large sample of countries for a period of six years (2007-2012). The dimensions of country …-level governance at macroeconomic level will be captured by using the following six indicators developed by the World Bank: 1. Voice …
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