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Entrepreneurship and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016

better understand the complicity of business there is a need for a shift from diagnostic attention on how businesses are …

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Up in STEM, down in business : changing college major decisions with the Great Recession

Liu, Shimeng; Sun, Weizeng; Winters, John V. - 2017

during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by … overall increase in the frequency of STEM majors but a decrease in the frequency of business majors during and after the Great … Recession. Second, the increase for STEM fields is spread across several detailed STEM fields, while the decrease in business …

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Is the scholarly field of entrepreneurship at its end?

Naudé, Wim - 2024

break in the disruptiveness of entrepreneurship and business papers occurred around 1999. These results should not be taken …

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Business disruptions due to social vulnerability and criminal activities in urban areas

Drydakis, Nick - 2024

This study investigates the relationship between social vulnerability, illegal activities, and location-based business …, gathered from areas with high levels of criminal activity, reflecting the experiences of business owners and managers in these … associated with increased location-based business disruptions. These disruptions manifest in assaults on employees and customers …

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Do good carefully : the long-term effects of DDT exposure in early childhood on education and employment

Chang, Simon; Kan, Kamhon - 2022

For decades, the debate on using DDT to control malaria has focused on the balance between immediate public health gains and ecological costs, ignoring DDT's long-term harmful effects on humans. Using data from the large-scale indoor residual spraying of DDT that took place in Taiwan in the...

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Adult education attendance and postsecondary outcomes

Kouwe, Thomas; Ribar, David C.; Greenberg, Daphne; … - 2023

This paper analyzes postsecondary enrollment and academic outcomes for people who attended adult education classes in Georgia between July 2017 and December 2020, using linked administrative records for students in the state's adult education, technical college, and university systems. The paper...

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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system

Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023

Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology - together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...

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