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Determinants of self-employment : the case in Vietnam

Do, Thi Quynh Trang; Duchêne, Gérard - HAL - 2007

The determinants of self-employment are widely studied in the economic literature in recent twenty years. However, in the case of Vietnam where self-employed population takes an important proportion in workforce, it remains an under researched area. By using the data from the Vietnam Household...

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Oil rents, governance quality, and the allocation of talents in developing countries

Ebeke, Christian; Omgba, Luc Désiré - HAL - 2011

Evidence shows that the allocation of talented people is not neutral for growth. Thus, a country with a large population of law concentrators tends to develop rent-seeking activities that reduce growth. A country with a large population of engineers tends to foster innovation and strengthen...

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Endogenous persistent inequality

Fall, Falilou - HAL - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that inherited humain capital is a powerful vector of inequality formation and persistence, irrespective of its links with financial wealth endowment. This paper argues that the agents who inherit a low level of human capital bear a greater utility...

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Returns to Education and Education-Occupation Mismatch within a Transition Economy. Empirical Analysis for the Russian Federation

Kyui, Natalia - HAL - 2010

This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a transition economy and compares these returns to similar returns in a developed economy. This study shows through the example of the Russian Federation that the increase in the...

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The dynamics of income inequality in a growth model with human capital and occupational choice

Borissov, Kirill; Lambrecht, Stéphane - HAL - 2012

We model a successive-generation economy in which parents, motivated by family altruism, decide to finance or not their offspring's human capital accumulation on the basis of their altruistic motive, their own income and the equilibrium ratio between skilled labor and unskilled labor wages. The...

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Entrepreneur, entrepreneuriat (et entreprise) : de quoi s'agit-il ?

Pesqueux, Yvon - HAL - 2014

après avoir questionné la notion d'entrepreneur et d'entrepreneuriat, il sera question de l'extensivité de la figure avec la référence actuelle à l'entrepreneur institutionnel et à l'entrepreneur social.

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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China

Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011

This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior

Dejardin, Marcus - HAL - 2011

entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of … entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as … the explicative factors of the allocation. Interactions between entrepreneurship, rent-seeking and growth are considered …

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Financial development, entrepreneurship and job satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2008

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and the employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non- monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738704