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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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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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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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-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model … are positive, and the data imply positive selection into both employee and self-employment status. Structural probit …
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. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …
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Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...
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