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relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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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...
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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...
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A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training …
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"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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"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across …
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US entrepreneurs typically work long hours in their firms and these hours form a large part of the firms' labor input …. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth distribution among entrepreneurs. We introduce … levels and the dispersion of wealth among entrepreneurs. Long owner hours incentivize poor, highly productive individuals to …
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: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale (NUTS-3) administrative data on immigrants' location in Italy, the … local presence of immigrant entrepreneurs (i.e. firms owned by foreign-born entrepreneurs) in the manufacturing sector, and … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …
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digital economy, digital entrepreneurs pursue opportunities to produce and trade in digital artifacts on digital artifact … for more research on digital entrepreneurship.As such, this paper provides an overview of the central research questions … currently being pursued in this field. These include questions such as: What is digital entrepreneurship? What is different in …
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous …
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