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Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2020

delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on … business skills in the country's required upper secondary entrepreneurship course. In addition to the government's standard … substitution between entrepreneurship and employment among students in treated schools. …

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Black entrepreneurs, job creation, and financial constraints

Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, Kyung Min; Brown, J. David; Earle, … - 2021

Black-owned businesses tend to operate with less finance and employ fewer workers than those owned by Whites. Motivated by a simple conceptual framework, we document these facts and show they are causally connected using large firm-level surveys linked to universal employer data from the Census...

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Grades and employer learning

Hansen, Anne Toft; Hvidman, Ulrik; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2021

This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...

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Access to finance among small and medium-sized enterprises and job creation in Africa

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Yogo, Urbain Thierry - 2020

In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...

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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011-2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...

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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020

This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...

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Overoptimistic entrepreneurs : predicting wellbeing consequences of self-employment

Odermatt, Reto; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...

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Cousins from overseas : the labour market impact of a major forced return migration shock

Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022

We study the labour market impact of the return of half a million Portuguese due to onset of the colonial war in 1974. Both the size and similarity with the native population (almost 80% were Portuguese-born) make this a unique shock. We use census data from 1960 and 1981 to document a decrease...

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To be or not to be : the entrepreneur in neo-Schumpeterian growth theory

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Karlsson, Johan - 2022

Based on a review of 700+ peer-reviewed articles since 1990, identified using text mining methodology and supervised machine learning, we analyze how neo-Schumpeterian growth theorists relate to the entrepreneur-centered view of Schumpeter (1934) and the entrepreneurless framework of Schumpeter...

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Globalization and firm performance

Catão, Luis; Faria, Pedro de; Martins, António; … - 2023

Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...

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