This paper explores the role of retail as an amenity and how it contributes to place attractiveness. In this …. In order to capture the precise impact from retail access, mean wages, population density, unemployment, leisure service … concentration, and municipal tax levels are controlled for. Results indicate a strong relationship between retail access and place …

This paper investigates returns to location in the retail sector and further analyzes the systematic variations across … central and peripheral retail markets, as well as across different types of retailing activities. The empirical design … utilizes individual level data, where the earnings of individuals working in the retail sector are used as a proxy for retail …

This paper is devoted to the study of municipal diversity in retail and durables. Specifically, it analyzes how a … theoretical part of the paper a simple modelmunicipal diversity in retail and durables is introduced, which incorporates the …

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …

Entrepreneurship can have important positive effects linked to job creation, wealth and income generation, innovation … mechanism through which entrepreneurship can be encouraged, grown and its economic benefits harnessed. The effect of regulatory … conditions on entrepreneurship however is not well understood, and can be nuanced given the wide range of regulatory tools and …

the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect … sectors appears to be more responsive to regional entrepreneurship, as compared to the productivity of manufacturing firms. …

interrelationship between entrepreneurship and the quality of business regulations. The empirical findings indicate that there is a … positive relationship between entrepreneurship, and the quality of business regulations. …

into entrepreneurship. I also find evidence that people are more likely to select the path of self-employment in the face …

and entrepreneurship. It does so by looking at the importance of Marshallian specialization and Jacobian diversity …