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This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively associated with various measures of income inequality. This...
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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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Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper, after documenting preliminary evidence on these declines, argues … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
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Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates, declining entrepreneurship, innovation, science, and research productivity …
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. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …
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Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …
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innovative entrepreneurship, that will also be discussed bridging entrepreneurial studies with the development literature …
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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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This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
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This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
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