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We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …
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entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the … effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis that links training and human capital, including tertiary education and … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education …
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The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …
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externalities, quality of governance and increasing return to education. Whilst many scientists and international institutions …
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both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal …
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
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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...
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entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that …, non-linear effects of the share of energy spending in household income, past entrepreneurial experience, alternative …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate … opportunity entrepreneurship. Hence, entrepreneurship may contribute towards countries' wellbeing in a broad sense, and countries …
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