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Entrepreneurial entry: which institutions matter?

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...

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Entrepreneurship in transition economies: the role of institutions and generational change

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269687

Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …

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Size matters: Entrepreneurial entry and government

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …

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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …

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Do institutions have a greater effect on female entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …

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High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...

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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999

-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …

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