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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...

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Marketmaking middlemen

Gautier, Pieter; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...

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Equilibrium allele distribution in trading populations

Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2006

This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for arbitrary systems of sexual reproduction. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture...

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Optimizing incentive plan design : a case study

Levenson, Alec Robert; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; … - 2011

We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...

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The rise of female entrepreneurs : new evidence on gender differences in liquidity constraints

Sauer, Robert M.; Wilson, Tanya - 2015

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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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015

general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015

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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Entering and leaving self-employment : a panel data analysis for 12 developing countries

Cho, Yoonyoung; Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose M. - 2015

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 and economic development : theory, evidence and policy

Naudé, Wim - 2013

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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Homeownership and entrepreneurship : the role of commitment and mortgage debt

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - 2013

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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