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Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer : Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?
Henley, Andrew - 2019
relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870291
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104968
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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Ubfal, Diego - 2019
A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...
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'Entrepreneurs Out of Necessity' : A Snapshot
Poschke, Markus - 2010
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144388
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749897
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Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2022
"Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087665
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Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship : India's Informal Sector Firms
Gang, Ira N.; Khangembam, Indira; Sen, Kunal - 2021
access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative … what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314985
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117187
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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2011
-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117831
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276