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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291245
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010
barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs to create small businesses, these programs are designed to alleviate … significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011536
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
to both frictions in the credit and labour markets. -- entrepreneurship ; monitoring costs ; credit constraint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548201
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Microentrepreneurship in developing countries
Jayachandran, Seema - 2020
This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164765
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Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses
Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
"Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603833
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Improving entrepreneurs' digital skills and firms' digital competencies through business apps training : a study of small firms
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … revealed that business apps training was positively associated with entrepreneurs' attitudes toward technology, willingness to …, the business apps training was positively associated with migrant entrepreneurs' integration into Greek society. Given the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172883
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774302
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Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts
Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of …-in-differences" approach, we find that for males aged 40 to 55, who are more likely to be entrepreneurs, the negative effect of the recession … on entrepreneurship has been sharper in areas with industrial districts. After examining alternative explanations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386017
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Do SBA loans create jobs?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2013
Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list of all SBA loans linked to annual data on all U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786960
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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013
entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787342