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Anelli, Massimo - 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...

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High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David - 2019

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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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany

Kohn, Karsten - 2018

household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …

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Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa : Evidence from Eswatini

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019

This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher initial capital is associated with better sales performance for...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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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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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016

This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both genders with higher start-up capital record better...

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...

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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship : Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2015

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are … easier to accomplish. Our theory offers a unique perspective on the contributions of immigrants to economic development …

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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa : Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity

Nagler, Paula - 2014

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in …

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