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Capital markets, temporary migration and entrepreneurship : evidence from Bangladesh
Bossaviea, Laurent; Görlach, Joseph-Simon; Özden, Çağlar - 2023
transformation of lower-income countries by enabling credit-constrained workers to enter into non-agricultural entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443865
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510506
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Entrepreneurial couples
Dahl, Michael S.; Praag, Mirjam van; Thompson, Peter - 2014
performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find … inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357376
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Corporate efficiency, credit status and investment
Quader, Manzur; Taylor, Karl - 2014
Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort to clarify the role of cash flow in examining the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379263
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Catastrophic job destruction
Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2013
In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage developments, in the context of the current recession. We single out the huge contribution of job destruction, especially due to the closing of existing firms, to the dramatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199018
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Liquidity or capital? : the impacts of easing credit constraints in rural Mexico
Aparicio, Gabriela; Bobić, Vida; De Olloqui, Fernando; … - 2021
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans provided by a national public development finance institution (DFI). In contrast to most of the existing literature, the study focuses on the effect of medium-sized loans over a two-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581494
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The economic effects of COVID-19 and credit constraints: evidence from Italian firms' expectations and plans
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Brianti, Marco; … - 2020
We investigate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the role played by credit constraints in the transmission mechanism, using a novel survey of expectations and plans of Italian firms, taken just before and after the outbreak. Most firms revise downward their expectations for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271637
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Heterogeneous effects of credit constraints on SMEs' employment : evidence from the Great Recession
Cornille, David; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018
This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks' financial health following the 2008 crisis is used as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785728
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Health and labour income of wage earners and self-employed workers in Cameroon
Fomba Kamga, Benjamin; Kengne Kamga, Arline; Audibert, … - 2013
and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … health, income, and selection into each employment status. The data used in this study is obtained from the 2007 Cameroon … ; self-employed ; Cameroon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729352
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770