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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation
Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009
Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are potent drivers of US economic growth. Some 25.5 million entrepreneurs generate more than 50% of...
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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and … American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. -- SMEs ; SME policy ; productivity ; Latin …
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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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Funding self-employment : the role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …
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Threshold values in German labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001
According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...
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Dismissal protection and worker flows in small establishments
Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor); Bender, Stefan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Are young and small firms hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs? : Evidence from German micro data
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Threshold effects of dismissal protection legislation in Germany
Verick, Sher (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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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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