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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …
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effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools to promote a variety of public goals and policies. In the past years much attention has been given to the expected social benefits from deploying ICT in different fields (transportation, education, public participation...
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This paper presents an application of a recently developed approach by Matteson and James (2012) for the analysis of change points in a data set, namely major financial market indices converted to financial return series. The general problem concerns the inference of a change in the distribution...
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performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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integral performance. The present paper aims to trace to what extent and why some cities outperform others. Starting from an … consideration of the perceptions of important classes of stakeholders on the performance outcomes of the various cities involved …
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> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education level but in … year <I>t</I> and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …
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performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year … return in industrial countries. The return varies, however, by gender, rural or urban residence, and the share of agriculture …
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in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...
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