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Where to go? : workers' reasons to quit and intra- versus interindustry job mobility
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2005
This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...
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The entrepreneurial adjustment process in disequilibrium
Burke, Andrew; Stel, Adriaan J. van - 2009
The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in disequilibrium but little empirical research has examined firm entry and exit in this context. We redress this by modelling the interrelationship between firm entry and exit in...
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Industry dynamics and entrepreneurship : an equilibrium model
Fok, Dennis; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Burke, Andrew; … - 2010 - This version: October 2010
This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics. The benefit of our model is twofold. First, to discriminate between entrants’ role of performing the entrepreneurial function of creating disequilibrium and the conventional...
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The entrepreneur's mode of entry : business takeover or new venture start?
Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2006
We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...
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Illegal entrepreneurship experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
entrepreneurs operating legal businesses in a transition context. Using regression techniques on a sample of 399 private business …
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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the...
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Entrepreneurship and economic transition
Aidis, Ruta - 2003
productiveentrepreneurship for transition countries. By means of a literature survey, wefurther present the main characteristics of …
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Determinants of enterprise restructuring in transition : description of a survey in Russian industry
Moers, Luc - 2000
To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved … restructuring, ownership,competition, budget constraints and, particularly, institutions in Russian industry, covering theperiod … assessment of formal andinformal institutions respectively, and largely the same ruling networks as before the start of …
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Limitations on de-collectivisation in central European agriculture
Bezemer, Dirk Johan - 2000
Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...
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How important are institutions for growth in transition countries?
Moers, Luc - 1999
Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation … results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment … performance in transition countries than institutionsper se. This suggests that macroeconomic stabilization and peace should be …
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