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where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that …We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
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In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...
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ideas, and higher educational attainments of entrepreneurs and workers, enhance endogenous economic growth by augmenting the … Entrepreneurship Monitor's Adult Population Survey of 63 countries over 2002–2010 and find robust support for these hypotheses …
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Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 …
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In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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. In order for the continent to benefit from the 4IR more needs to be done to improve entrepreneurship and education. A … number of policy recommendations for 4IRcompatible entrepreneurship and education policies are made …
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This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
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