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The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
Sonobe, Tetsushi; Otsuka, Keijiro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these countri
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Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity
Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute …
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Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization
Acs, Zoltan J.; Wim Naud� - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...
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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Bruck, Tilman; Naude, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the …
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Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
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Entrepreneurship and Quality of Institutions
Amoros, Jose Ernesto - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
business creation and its effect on the economy. The present study focuses on an important determinant of entrepreneurship: the … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project. The results indicate that the quality of institutions is a relevant factor for the distribution …
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Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Desai, Sameeksha - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
This paper discusses the difficulties associated with measuring entrepreneurship in developing countries. Three … important dichotomies in the research on entrepreneurship are discussed: formal-informal, legal-illegal, and necessity …-opportunity. Several common measures of entrepreneurship are outlined along with their relevance to developing countries, including self …
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Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies
Ostrom, Elinor - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
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Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...
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The Impact on Earnings When Entering Self-Employment: Evidence for Germany
Martin, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) earnings differentials between self-employed and wage-employed workers in the German labor market are explored. Previous research based on US data reports lower incomes for entrepreneurs. In contrast to that, the findings of this contribution...
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