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Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - 2014

inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship. …

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Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …

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Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts

Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of … on entrepreneurship has been sharper in areas with industrial districts. After examining alternative explanations …

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Is religion associated with entrepreneurial activity?

Henley, Andrew - 2014

national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …

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Community entrepreneurship in deprived neighbourhoods : comparing UK community enterprises with US community development corporations

Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015

CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …

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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015

Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...

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The rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints

Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem

Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014

This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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