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Latent earning capacity and the race marriage gap

Nakosteen, Robert A.; Zimmer, Michael A. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20

One of the most persistent socioeconomic phenomena in the process of family formation is the relatively low rate of marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative shortage of marriageable black men. Yet numerous studies...

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Investigating the determinants of household welfare in the Central Highland, Vietnam

In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-11

To provide policy implication for improving household welfare, one should understand which characteristics of households in a specific location they live, enable them to raise their welfare levels. This paper uses micro-econometric models for investigating the determinants of household welfare...

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The role of entrepreneurship in stimulating economic growth in developed and developing countries

Doran, Justin; McCarthy, Nóirín; O'Connor, Marie - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-14

This paper analyses whether different measure of entrepreneurship can explain economic growth. It utilises 14 … difference indicators of entrepreneurship to analyse the contribution of entrepreneurial activity, aspirations, and attitudes to … Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. It also examines whether the importance of entrepreneurship varies across high …

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A Participatory Systems Mapping (PSM) based approach towards analysis of business sustainability of rural Indian milk dairies

Kamath, Vasanth; Kamath, Giridhar B. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-16

Drawing from the theories of Participatory Systems Mapping (PSM) this study presents an approach to analysing the business sustainability of entrepreneurial dairy ventures in India. The article begins with a general introduction to the small and medium scale dairy ventures in rural India,...

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Job creation, job destruction and reallocation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Irm-level evidence from Kenyan manufacturing sector

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-22

Is the poor aggregate employment growth of the manufacturing sector in Sub-Saharan African countries the outcome of inadequate job creation or rival forces of job creation and job destruction acting in opposite direction? Using a unique dataset from the Kenyan manufacturing sector, we examine...

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Business training programs and microenterprise formalization in Peru

Barron, Manuel - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-13

between business training programs and formalization using data of 1,133 participants in two entrepreneurship programs in Peru …

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