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“Entrepreneurs out of Necessity”: A Snapshot
Poschke, Markus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey area sizeable group across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360595
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Informal Workers Across Europe:Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347585
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Soap Operas for Female Micro Entrepreneur Training
Nakasone, Eduardo; Torero, Maximo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper analyzes the impact of the Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship in Peru (SWEP) program. SWEP trained female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240372
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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship:The Role of Extreme Events
Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extremeevents – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions ofentrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure instarting a business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360568
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Entrepreneurship in Latin America : a step up the social ladder?
Lora, Eduardo (contributor);  … - 2013
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Export pioneers in Latin America
Sabel, Charles F. (contributor) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009626193
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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … entrepreneurship research.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353909
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions,and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdataavailable … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed lighton this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360519
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs toCreate Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360546
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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth andEntrepreneurship: Theory and Evidencefrom the Introduction of a “Fresh Start”
Fossen, Frank M. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
, lenders may charge higherinterest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of amore … entrepreneurship.... …
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