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Drivers of change or cut-throat competitors? Challenging Cultures of Innovation of Chinese and Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met … with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter … a trading Diaspora in general vis-à-vis local entrepreneurs, regardless of the background national culture in which it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568371
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Recall error and recall bias in life course epidemiology
Tampubolon, Gindo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
OBJECTIVES I propose a distinction between recall error and recall bias and examine the the effect of childhood financial hardship on adult health, subject to such recall problems. Studying the effect of childhood hardship on adult health is a prototypical investigation in life course studies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526955
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Time use during the life course in the USA, Norway, and the Netherlands: a HAPC-analysis
Versantvoort, Maroesjka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses life course variations by means of Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort-modelling (HAPC) of time use data for thee welfare states: the USA, Norway, and the Netherlands. By means of analyzing time use data insight is gained in the (relative) importance of various life spheres as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583587
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Studying time use variations in 18 countries applying a life course perspective
Versantvoort, Maroesjka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
To gain insight in variations in life courses during last decades, and the factors underlying these variations, time use data seem suited. By means of analyzing time use data insight is gained in the (relative) importance of various life spheres as paid work, household work, volunteer aid, care,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592996
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The Distribution of Income of Self-employed, Entrepreneurs and Professions as Revealed from Micro Income Tax Statistics in Germany
Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
Statistic. New is the comparison between income from dependent and self-employed work with emphasis on the entrepreneurs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836199
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The way things are done here – Polish entrepreneurship - having endowned heritage or burden?
Starnawska, Marzena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
cultural heritage from the previous socio-economic system has created population of entrepreneurs that will not necessarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259343
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The development of small and medium-sized enterprises and the demographic parameters of enterprises and entrepreneurs
Wach, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This article discusses the two main factors, namely, the demographic parameters of enterprises and entrepreneurs, whcih … determine the relationship between, on the one hand, the demographic parameters of enterprises and entrepreneurs and, on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147869
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Entrepreneurship: what´s happening?
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Much has been said lately about entrepreneurship, so it seems important to leave here some personal analysis on this topic. The issues outlined here result from a work in about a year in which because a personal and professional obligations it was doing some research on these issues. This is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211239
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Entrepreneurship: some considerations
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this work it is presented some considerations about entrepreneurship. Most of these questions are linked with Portuguese context. Portugal has some particularities, namely because the asymmetries between the littoral and the interior. This situation carried out some problems that complicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211241
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Shifted Identities in Tourism: When Mykonos travels to Thailand for Holidays
Nazou, Despina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
attempt to show the tourist perceptions and practices of a group of entrepreneurs from Mykonos (place of origin), an overly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674259