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understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …
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stock of (non-entrepreneur) immigrants by 10% would lead to a 1.7% increase in exports in manufacturing towards immigrants …
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an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
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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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This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people's employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...
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becoming self-employed later in life and 2) of being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales. Our results … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …
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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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I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young …" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship …
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entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in …In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the … standard curriculum.This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor …
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