Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 71
Cover Image
Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328894
Cover Image
Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270068
Cover Image
The radical innovation investment decision refined
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim A. - 2013
We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non-marginal stochastic jump processes. From the model analytics we determine that the average magnitude and frequency of non-marginal stochastic jump processes are the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293106
Cover Image
Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328895
Cover Image
The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329079
Cover Image
Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329195
Cover Image
Skills, Scope, and Success: An Empirical Look at the Start-up Process in Creative Industries in Germany
Kohn, Karsten; Wewel, Solvejg A. - 2018
household income. Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931615
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269212
Cover Image
Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269421
Cover Image
Out of sight, out of mind: migration, entrepreneurship and social capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269590