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Kritikos, Alexander - 2022

entrepreneurship since 2000 and shows that possessing certain personality characteristics will make it more likely that an individual … into entrepreneurship. Further, entrepreneurs are more likely to hire, the higher they score in risk tolerance, trust …

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Macroeconomic contractions during impressionable years and entrepreneurship in later adulthood

Sotirakopoulos, Panagiotis; Guven, Cahit; Ulker, Aydogan; … - 2021

entrepreneurship based on the "impressionable years hypothesis". Accordingly, we empirically investigate the relationship between bad … economic conditions during youth and later-life entrepreneurship using Gallup from 2009 to 2014. The identification is achieved … conditions when young can significantly predict higher entrepreneurship in later life. For example, experiencing at least one …

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Improving entrepreneurs' digital skills and firms' digital competencies through business apps training : a study of small firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

increased number of migrants in Europe, factors that positively impact their entrepreneurship and integration merit …

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The births of new private-owned enterprises in an environment of state-owned enterprises

Zhao, Zhong; Liang, Zheng - 2023

The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008...

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Access to finance employment growth and firm performance of South Asia firms

Bui, Anh Tuan; Pham Chi Linh; Ta Van Thi Khan - 2021

Using firm-level data on 11,000 companies across seven countries in South Asia, this paper explores the effects of access to finance on employment growth and performance at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the impact of financing obstacles varies across firm sizes. The results show that...

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Training, human capital, and gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2019

entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the …

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Entrepreneurial ecosystemsand regional persistence of high growth firms : a "broken clock" critique

Coad, Alexander; Srhoj, Stjepan - 2021 - This version: 7 December2021

The Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE) approach makes specific predictions regarding how EE inputs are converted into high-growth firms (HGFs) as an output. A simulation model draws out our hypothesis of regional persistence in HGF shares. Based on intuitions that EEs are persistent, we investigate...

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Personal characteristics and intention for entrepreneurship

Yalcintas, Murat; Iyigun, Oykü; Karabulut, Gokhan - 2021

This study analyzes the relationship between entrepreneurship intention and personal characteristics and skills by …, entrepreneurship, and networking sub-dimensions of the scales are related to entrepreneurship intention. We also find that gender, the … entrepreneurship intention. Results may be useful to understand and enhance entrepreneurship potential. …

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