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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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We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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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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and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have …
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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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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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Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from … provides an explanation for the low rates of growth of enterprises supported by microlending. -- Entrepreneurship ; self …
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Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U … for men, those who live in ethnic enclaves. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; Mexico ; Mexican-Americans …
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