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In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …
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It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …
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This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...
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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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general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …
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We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
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This paper examines the determinants of labor market transitions into and out of self-employment (own-account work and employer), using panel data from 12 developing countries in multiple regions. Despite cross-country heterogeneity, a few consistent patterns emerge. Entering the labor market...
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entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
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We study the link between homeownership and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and housing tenure … and entrepreneurship is increasing in mortgage debt; and (iii) the negative relation is more pronounced for entrepreneurs …
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particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically …
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