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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa : patterns and determinants

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...

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Transitioning from solo self-employed to microbusiness employer : local economic environment or owner characteristics?

Henley, Andrew - 2019

Only a minority of micro-businesses create jobs for others. This paper addresses whether personal characteristics and resources of the microbusiness owner or the local external economic environment are drivers of job creation. In the UK context of significant growth in self-employment but a...

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State-based conflict and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, Ernesto; Brück, Tilman - 2023

, entrepreneurship is more resilient, and the ratio of female-to-male entrepreneurs in opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship higher. …

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Labour costs and the decision to hire the first employee

Cockx, Bart; Desiere, Sam - 2023

Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced...

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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon

Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010

barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs to create small businesses, these programs are designed to alleviate …

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses

Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...

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Improving entrepreneurs' digital skills and firms' digital competencies through business apps training : a study of small firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … revealed that business apps training was positively associated with entrepreneurs' attitudes toward technology, willingness to …, the business apps training was positively associated with migrant entrepreneurs' integration into Greek society. Given the …

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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...

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