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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Is It U-Shaped?

Wennekers, Sander; van Stel, André; Carree, Martin; … - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 6 (2010) 3, pp. 167-237

independent entrepreneurship, also known as self-employment or business ownership, and economic development. We argue that the … reemergence of independent entrepreneurship is based on at least two 'revolutions'. If we distinguish between solo self …-employed at the lower end of the entrepreneurship spectrum, and ambitious and/or innovative entrepreneurs at the upper end, many …

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Unraveling two myths about entrepreneurs

Hessels, Jolanda; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; van der Zwan, … - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 3, pp. 435-438

The supposed creativity of left-handed and dyslexic individuals may fit well with an entrepreneurial occupation. Empirical evidence from two representative Dutch samples, however, shows that left-handed and dyslexic individuals are not more likely to be(come) entrepreneurs than right-handed and...

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Young immigrant children and their educational attainment

Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 288-290

We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in The Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and whether or not one of the parents is native Dutch.

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English deficiency and the native–immigrant wage gap

Miranda, Alfonso; Zhu, Yu - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 38-41

Using the interaction of language of country of birth and age-at-arrival as instruments, we find strong evidence of a causal effect of English as Additional Language (EAL) on the native–immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK.

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Fractionalization and trust in India: A field-experiment

Chuah, Swee-Hoon; Fahoum, Reema; Hoffmann, Robert - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 2, pp. 191-194

Is India’s high fractionalization associated with mistrust between its two main religious communities? An inter-ethnic trust game field experiment confirms intergroup bias in mutually lower offers between urban Muslims and Hindus in Mumbai. There are no differences in trustworthiness based on...

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Disadvantages of linguistic origin—Evidence from immigrant literacy scores

Isphording, Ingo E. - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 236-239

This study quantifies the disadvantage in literacy skills that arises from the linguistic distance between their mother tongue and host country language, combining individual cross-country data on literacy scores with unique information on the linguistic distance between languages.

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How does employment protection legislation influence hiring and firing decisions by the smallest firms?

Millán, Ana; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción; … - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 3, pp. 444-448

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on hiring decisions by own-account workers and firing decisions by very small firms (one to four employees). Using data from the EU-15 countries, our results show that the strictness of employment protection legislation is...

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Entrepreneurship in the UK

Blanchflower, David G.; Shadforth, Chris - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 3 (2007) 4, pp. 257-364

This paper examines the causes and consequences of changes in the incidence of entrepreneurship in the UK. Self …

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Entrepreneurship Research: Past Perspectives and Future Prospects

Lundström, Anders; Halvarsson, Sune - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 2 (2007) 3, pp. 145-259

Technical Development (NUTEK) have been rewarding research on small business and entrepreneurship with the FSF-NUTEK Award for … research on small business and entrepreneurship. This award is given to leading scholars who have had the greatest impact in … shaping the field of small business and entrepreneurship research. In particular, FSF and NUTEK invited these pre …

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Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurial Firms

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E. - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 10 (2014) 1-2, pp. 1-160

Although topics in corporate governance have been present in literature for almost a century, most of the theoretical and empirical work has focused on large and public companies, or the "<italic>Berle-Means-Corporation</italic>" in which fragmented ownership, caused by the separation of ownership and control,...

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