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Human Capital and Genetic Diversity
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The determinants of human capital have been studied sparsely in the literature. Although there is a huge literature on the determinants of schooling linked with the quality of schooling, there are not many contributions that explore the deep determinants of investment in, quantity and quality of...
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Economic opportunity and evolution : beyond landscapes and bounded rationality
Felin, Teppo; Kauffman, Stuart A.; Koppl, Roger; Longo, … - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 8 (2014) 4, pp. 269-282
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Industry evolution and entrepreneurship : Steven Klepper's contributions to industrial organization, strategy, technological change, and entrepreneurship
Agarwal, Rajshree; Braginskij, Sergej V. - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 9 (2015) 4, pp. 380-397
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The relation between economic development and business ownership revisited
Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, … - 2007
This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2009 - Current version: May 2009
models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378136
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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011
economy. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381042
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Selected variation : the population-level implications of multistage selection in entrepreneurship
Eckhardt, Jonathan T.; Ciuchta, Michael P. - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 2 (2008) 3, pp. 209-224
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Is more entrepreneurship better?
Koellinger, Philipp; Roessler, Christian - 2009 - Last update 03.12.2009
We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...
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Business ownership and unemployment in Japan
Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop A.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2004
unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …
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The Culture of Entrepreneurship
Chakraborty, Shankha; Thompson, Jon; Yehoue, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We study the cultural process through which a society inculcates an entrepreneurial spirit. People work for a guaranteed wage or operate a firm whose return depends on business expertise. The latter is culturally acquired, within the family or outside, and people may choose an occupation...
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