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This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...
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first to consider both manufacturing and service entrepreneurship in China and should be of interest to both local and …Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed …
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This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
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This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector...
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people who joined the former ruling party tended have fewer of the traits associated with entrepreneurship such as motivation …
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entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary survey data we collected in the … remote work also matter for entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship formation … and closure in a time of adversity and suggest that implementing entrepreneurship training and upskilling policies during …
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The number of private enterprises in China has grown rapidly, and donations from them are an important source of … philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by private enterprises using a survey of data covering … all 31 provincial-level units of China. The data show that philanthropy practised by Chinese private enterprises is …
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relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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We study the origins of entrepreneurship (culture) in the United States. For the analysis we make use of a quasi … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher …
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The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
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