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start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …
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uncertainty). This paper presents empirical evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurial transition drawing on data from Waves 8 to … for aspiring entrepreneurs. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; switching costs ; occupational choice …
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This paper examines the causes and consequences of changes in the incidence of entrepreneurship in the UK. Self …
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The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of … entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches …
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A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then...
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-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official …
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data set of Peruvian micro enterprises. The paper finds that business formality does not imply labor formality, and vice …
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tested for its effectiveness in generating income. The 1980-2006 annual county-level data (Shannon Co. is 'treatment', Todd …
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. -- informality ; small enterprises ; entrepreneurship …
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and how could these jobs be recreated. Are these issues specific to industries or are they universal? The data used is … register data on workplaces and firms for the period 1980-2007. The base unit of data is the workplace. The company (firm) is … change of ownership, mergers and divisions. Data must be corrected so that these administrative issues will not affect the …
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