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unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a …
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This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...
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entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
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South America. Using data from the GEM APS for the period 2005-2017, we apply fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis …, allowing us to find causal links in the form of necessary conditions linked to entrepreneurship in the sample countries … gender. However, peer effects, the social perception of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial skills, and formal education seem …
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This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...
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the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be …
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time-use data from the American Time Use Survey 2003-2014 to analyze the spatial distribution of self-employment across …
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-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Using longitudinal … data for the period 2003-2016, fixed effect estimates show a significant short-term correlation between the current …
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In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework where self-employed workers minimize their commuting time, employees do not minimize their...
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relevant models, in terms of predictability, reducing dimensions. We apply this methodology to the Global Entrepreneurship … Monitor data for the year 2014, and find that innovation and new technologies, help others with their business, and that …
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