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’ contribution to entrepreneurial activity and employment creation in their host countries. In OECD countries, entrepreneurship is …, although the survival rate of these businesses is often lower than that of their native counterparts. Migrant entrepreneurship … migrant entrepreneurship is essential if policy makers are to better support migrant enterprises and their role in economic …
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Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …
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business environment conducive to risk-taking and experimentation by entrepreneurs, as well as access to entrepreneurship …
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Introduction / Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar -- International perspectives on the nature of entrepreneurship … -- Explaining international differences in entrepreneurship: the role of individual characteristics and regulatory constraints … Colombian case / Camilo Mondragón-Vélez and Ximena Peña -- Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries / Leora Klapper …
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Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...
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Demographic pressure and the youth bulge in the developing world pose a major employment challenge. This situation is … these reasons, fostering youth entrepreneurship has gained importance in the global and national development policy agenda …. This report aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on the role of youth entrepreneurship in generating employment in …
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-slump macroeconomic cycles. During both crises, world trade collapsed faster than world incomes and the trade decline was highly …
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This paper offers a "panoramic" analysis of the history of financial crises dating from England's fourteenth-century default to the current United States sub-prime financial crisis. Our study is based on a new dataset that spans all regions. It incorporates a number of important credit episodes...
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