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economic growth and points to the importance of tertiary education in the explanation of growth for developing countries. In … previous literature, our results show that, under broad and plausible model parameterizations, the marginal growth effect of …
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The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenous
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The paper examines the relationship between human capital and productivity growth with reference to the Italian regions … capital as a determinant of growth, while the other, inspired by Nelson and Phelps, emphasizes the role of the stock in … the most important growth determinant. A model is estimated which allows to test both the neoclassical and the Nelson …
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This paper analyses the growth effects of high levels of human capital at the industry level. By favouring technology … regions, the results show positive and significant effects of human capital levels and accumulation on value added growth …. This result is robust to a series of sensitivity checks such as measures of productivity growth and different indicators of …
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possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …
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employment protection legislation has a negative and significant effect on growth of value added and hours of work in more human …
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We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...
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the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
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entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …
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