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In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to … also how skill formation or education affects unemployment among the remaining uneducated. We have developed a general … equilibrium model of a small open developing economy incorporating skill formation, unemployment of unskilled labour in the formal …
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entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …
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We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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to entrepreneurship, and output. The calibration shows that optimism can explain the empirical puzzle of the low mean … returns to entrepreneurship compared to average wages. …
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New firms do not yet have employees who can aid recruiting by referrals, but entrepreneurs can recruit workers they know to their startups—in effect making their own referrals. We consider new firms in Brazil's formal sector founded between 2002 and 2014, for which at least one founding owner...
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to entrepreneurship, and output. The calibration shows that optimism can explain the empirical puzzle of the low mean … returns to entrepreneurship compared to average wages …
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conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market …
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