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Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The … determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the … determining the incidence of entrepreneurship. We explore the creation of Special Civil Tribunals in the Brazilian state of São …
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We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …
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In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia …. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
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entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
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productive entrepreneurship and private sector employment in Africa. …
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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately − 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition − and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time...
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provide a quantitative summary of the available evidence regarding the influence of labour market institutions on real wage …
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characteristics of workers, changes in the institutions of the labour market, in skill-biased technological progress and increasing …
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We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process … of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the appropriability of rents in form of a state of law … necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …
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We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...
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