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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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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 … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …

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Is productive entrepreneurship getting scarcer? : a reflection on the contemporary relevance of Baumol's typology

Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim; Stam, Erik - 2023

We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …

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Entrepreneurship Is dangerously obsessed with growth and incompatible with current visions of a post-growth society

Naudé, Wim - 2024

Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of …. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are exposed as oxymorons. Given the dangers and the impossibility of perpetual … growth, the paper then tries to answer the question of what role entrepreneurship could play in a post-growth society or in …

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The role of entrepreneurial human capital as a driver of endogenous economic growth

Ehrlich, Isaac; Li, Dunli; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2017

Entrepreneurship Monitor's Adult Population Survey of 63 countries over 2002-2010 and find robust support for these hypotheses. …

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Cross sections are history

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies

Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007

While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE...

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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