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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
Henley, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761638
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822686
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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with Two Elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566377
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404596
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670827
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959583
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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548723
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Lost in Transition: Life Satisfaction on the Road to Capitalism
Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe life satisfaction has followed the V-shaped pattern of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822809
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How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560403
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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703138