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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Adriaan R. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer sur …

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Entrepreneurial engagement levels in the European Union

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

A multinomial logit model and survey data from the 25 EU member states and the US are used to establish the effect of demographic and other variables on various entrepreneurial engagement levels. These engagement levels range from "never thought about starting a business" to "thinking about it",...

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The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What we Don't

Parker, Simon C. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurship. It is designed primarily to showcase to young entrepreneurship scholars several interesting research questions and a …

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Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: the Case of Portugal

Baptista, Rui; Escária, Vítor Manuel Alvares; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

This paper investigates whether a high level of new business formation in a region stimulates employment in that region. The study looks at the lag structure of these effects, using a data set covering a fairly large time span (1982-2002). The indirect supply-side effects of new firm births,...

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COMPENDIA: Harmonizing business ownership data across countries and over time

Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

called the business ownership rate of a country. The data set is called COMPENDIA, which means COMParative ENtrepreneurship …

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The link between firm births and job creation: Is there a Upas Tree effect?

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been examined...

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Business dynamics and employment growth: a cross-country analysis

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Diephuis, Bart - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...

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Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing

Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltán J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2003

An important new literature on gross employment flows has produced a great outpouring of stylized facts. In this paper we examine one aspect of this literature through the lens of dynamic models and theories of industrial evolution. We extend the Davis and Haltiwanger methodology for analysis of...

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a … production function model. This paper explains what is meant by entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic … output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for …

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