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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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The Dynamics of Self-employment in a Developing Country: Evidence from India
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543481
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The return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle
Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Toivanen, Otto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The returns to entrepreneurship are monetary and non-monetary. We offer new evidence on these returns using a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924822
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Do risk attitudes differ within the group of entrepreneurs?
Block, Joern; Sandner, Philipp; Spiegel, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The notion of risk and entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature. Starting a … about risk attitudes of entrepreneurs and to the literature about necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566446
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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung
Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
die Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie für die Entrepreneurship-Praxis werden diskutiert. Herausforderungen aus Sicht der …-AG” or “me-plc” in January 2003, this share has increased strongly. Entrepreneurship research so far has said very little … perspective of entrepreneurship research as well as from a perspective of governmental start-up policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518229
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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress
Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular...
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Do innovation dimensions matter in China’s cross-regional income differences?
Yang, Jingjing; Khalil, Sana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the interlinks between innovation inputs and outputs and between innovation outputs and economic development. Using a panel data-set from 31 regions of China, we show that the difference in regional innovation output can be significantly explained by R&D manpower and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168665
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Education, Development and Knowledge: New Forms of Unequal Change Under Globalization. The Case of SSA Countries
Chagas Lopes, MARGARIDA - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111126
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The impact of ICT on educational performance and its efficiency in selected EU and OECD countries: a non-parametric analysis
Aristovnik, Aleksander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The purpose of the paper is to review some previous researches examining ICT efficiency and the impact of ICT on educational output/outcome as well as different conceptual and methodological issues related to performance measurement. Moreover, a definition, measurements and the empirical...
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What can we learn from privately held firms about executive compensation?
Cole, Rebel; Mehran, Hamid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study examines executive compensation using data from two nationally representative samples of privately held U.S. corporations conducted ten years apart—in 1993 and 2003—and uses these data to test a number of hypotheses. We find that: (i) the level of executive pay at privately held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614999