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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763629
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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vaillant, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884089
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Self-Employment and Parenthood: Exploring the Impact of Partners, Children and Gender
Aidis, Ruta; Wetzels, Cecile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper explores the relationship between self-employment, partner’s employment, the household and children on a mother’s and father’s probability to choose self-employment. Few studies are available on this topic and their analysis is mainly limited to the female role in the North...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763591
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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly … that while both male and female entrepreneurs in ECA are sub-optimally small, women's returns to scale are significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700969
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884121
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"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries
Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884143
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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884187
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
innovative entrepreneurship, that will also be discussed bridging entrepreneurial studies with the development literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … change does not benefit all potential entrepreneurs equally, and there is a positive relationship between an individual …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884221