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in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for … women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in which female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female …. Counterfactual simulations indicate that removing all excess barriers faced by women entrepreneurs would substantially increase the …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
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This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to analyze the connections between some dimensions of...
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high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis … migration ; globalization …
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the populist narrative, we find that while immigrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion, this is mostly to export …
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...
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; household enterprises ; India …
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the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time …, heterogeneous firm model à la Lucas (1978): technological change does not benefit all potential entrepreneurs equally, and there is …. Because wages rise for all workers, low-productivity entrepreneurs will then at some point exit and become workers. As a …
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ideas, and higher educational attainments of entrepreneurs and workers, enhance endogenous economic growth by augmenting the …
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