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-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …
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chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …
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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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data is provided. Individual demographic and resource characteristics are found to be more important, but place effects are … relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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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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Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such … entering with one. We link administrative and survey data to study the role of founder characteristics in high growth, defined …
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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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Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …
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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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