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Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still: Income mobility in Chile

Castro, Rodrigo - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 243-258

This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 and 2001. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high. The purpose of this paper is to apply a binomial probit model and split analysis into assessment of individuals and households on...

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Economic cycles and self-employment: Synthetic cohort analysis for Greater Santiago

Montero, Rodrigo; Pérez, Joaquín - In: Estudios de Economía 49 (2022) 1, pp. 5-30

Economic cycles affect both unemployment and the composition of employment, which can have an impact on the well-being of individuals if these changes in composition are involuntary or involve a decrease in the quality of employment. In this article, we study the relationship between economic...

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Formal and informal equity funding in Chile

Amorós, José Ernesto; Atienza, Miguel; Romani, Gianni - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 179-194

gathered from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys, the paper argues that despite the favorable environment …

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Dice thrown from the beginning? An empirical investigation of determinants of firm level growth expectations

Terjesen, Siri; Szerb, Lászlo - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 153-178

nascent, baby and established firms. Using 25,384 data points from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)'s survey of …

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The startup process

Acs, Zoltan J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 121-132

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and … welfare effects. The papers in this special issue are from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research Conference held in … empirical evidence on the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship. Third, to present a summary …

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Innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin America: What do we know? What would we like to know?

Alvarez, Roberto; Grazzi, Matteo - In: Estudios de Economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 157-171

entrepreneurship rates have been identified as two of the main reasons for this situation. In this paper, we present a synthetic but … evaluations performed to assess innovation and entrepreneurship policies implemented in Latin America. This review, together with …

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The endowment effect on entrepreneurs: A risky attachment

Echeverry Peñón, Isabela; Reyes Ortega, Santiago - In: Estudios de Economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 231-249

This paper presents evidence on the role of the endowment effect in shaping the risk-taking behavior of entrepreneurs, and how the potential of losing their firms lead them to take higher risks. This study uses an experimental design with 466 entrepreneurs in Cali, Colombia. Results show that...

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