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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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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 …
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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data : An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2010
Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757745
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Entrepreneurial Entry : Which Institutions Matter?
Aidis, Ruta - 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/10012763926
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Latina Entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764680
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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019
entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859274
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Entrepreneurial Persistence Beyond Survival : Measurement and Determinants
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
Entrepreneurial persistence is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's continued positive maintenance of entrepreneurial motivation and constantly-renewed active engagement in a new business venture despite counter forces or enticing alternatives. It is thus a crucial factor for entrepreneurs when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862479
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The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West : Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?
Naudé, Wim - 2019
Entrepreneurship in most advanced economies is in decline. This comes as a surprise: many scholars have expected an … upsurge in entrepreneurship. What are the reasons for the decline? In this paper I first document the extent of the decline in …-side view and moreover fail to explain why the decline in entrepreneurship is largely confined to economies with high levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862486
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Entrepreneurship Over the Business Cycle in the United States : A Decomposition
Fossen, Frank M. - 2019
entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864874
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Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship : A Pan-African RCT
Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2020
Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844823