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In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government …-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …
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This paper proposes an answer to the question of why social unrest sometimes occurs in the wake of an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). Under certain circumstances, partly determined by a country’s comparative advantage, a nation’s elite may have an incentive to make transfers to the...
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
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labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated …This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …
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. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The …
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In Europe, declining corporate tax rates have come along with rising tax-to-GDP ratios. This paper explores to what … panel of European data on firm births and legal form of business to analyze income shifting via increased entrepreneurship … and incorporation. The results suggest that lower corporate taxes exert an ambiguous effect on entrepreneurship. The …
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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
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