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We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of … on entrepreneurship has been sharper in areas with industrial districts. After examining alternative explanations …
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entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
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access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
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This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …
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We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...
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In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...
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Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...
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Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring … Survey (KFS), and the Growing America through Entrepreneurship (GATE) experiment are used to provide some of the first … largest random experiment providing entrepreneurship training in the United States ever conducted, we do not find evidence …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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