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Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across … market. This evidence is a challenge for existing theories of heterogeneous firms. -- Entrepreneurship ; firm size …
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
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-farming entrepreneurship. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate …
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We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …
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Entrepreneurship scholarship and policy are based on the myth of firm growth as imperative and the related myth of …. Green growth and sustainable entrepreneurship are exposed as oxymorons. Given the dangers and the impossibility of perpetual … growth, the paper then tries to answer the question of what role entrepreneurship could play in a post-growth society or in …
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Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …
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This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
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This paper provides a selective overview of destructive digital entrepreneurship. The concept is defined and elaborated … the corporate sector: the incentives for unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship to subvert the digital revolution … entrepreneurship - are discussed. These are digital platform capitalism, tech exceptionalism, the surveillance state, the digital …
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