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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper, after documenting preliminary evidence on these declines, argues … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
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Can interactive online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Lafortune, Jeanne; Pugatch, Todd; Tessada, José A.; … - 2022
We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822079
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The COVID-19 Crisis and Entrepreneurship : Perspectives and Experiences of Researchers, Thought Leaders, and Policymakers
Audretsch, David B. (ed.); Kunadt, Iris A. M. (ed.) - 2022
Competitive -- Depths of Change: Ranging from Clubhouse to Game Changer -- Oxygenating Innovation? The Not-So-Brave New World of … So Disparate Opportunities and Challenges for Majors and Start-Ups -- Entrepreneurship and Economic Resilience in Times …: Reflecting on the Future of Entrepreneurship Research: Diversity and Impact After the COVID-19 Crisis -- Dreaming of a Different …
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Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries : increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration
Holzmann, Robert (contributor) - 2005
The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003227208
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From mancession to shecession: women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions
Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - 2021
We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493353
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Lockdown accounting
Gottlieb, Charles; Grobovsek, Jan; Poschke, Markus; … - 2020
We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector-level data. Employment effects depend on the ability to work from home, which ranges from about half of total employment in rich countries to around 35% in poor countries. This gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242304
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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461554
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291245
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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom
Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021
This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492015
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The entrepreneurial society : a reform strategy for Italy, Germany and the UK
Sanders, Mark (ed.); Marx, Axel (ed.); Stenkula, Mikael (ed.) - 2020
Institutions in Europe -- Economic Impact Assessment of Entrepreneurship Policies with the GMR-Europe Model -- On the Institutional … Foundations on the Varieties of Entrepreneurship in Europe -- Towards an Entrepreneurial Society: What Can the European Union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399403