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Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015

We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

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Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance of newborn firms in developing countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...

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"Romanticizing penniless entrepreneurs?" : the relationship between start-ups and human wellbeing across countries

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi M., Oscar - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...

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By choice and by necessity : entrepreneurship and self-employment in the developing world

Margolis, David N. - 2014

the developing world tends to be low productivity employment, and as countries move up the development path, the …

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The decision to become an entrepreneur and the firm size distribution : a unifying framework for policy analysis

Poschke, Markus - 2013

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...

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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 of venture capital, has been severely curtailed by the lockdown and social distancing measures taken by governments around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper,...

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Extreme events, entrepreneurial start-ups, and innovation: theoretical conjectures

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we scrutinize what has been established in the literature on whether entrepreneurship can cause and resolve extreme events, the immediate and long-run impacts of extreme events on entrepreneurship, and whether extreme events can positively impact (some)...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

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