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The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

Dhingra, Swati; Machin, Stephen J. - 2021

This paper uses a new field survey of low-wage areas of urban India to show that employment and earnings were decimated …

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Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa : Evidence from Eswatini

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019

This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher initial capital is associated with better sales performance for...

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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019

entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the …

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Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa : New Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2015

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the …

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Entrepreneurial Recovery from Covid-19 : Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …

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Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis?

Naudé, Wim - 2016

The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the … entrepreneurship will contribute towards ending the continent's economic malaise. In this article I argue that these expectations may … be disappointed because (i) entrepreneurship promotion is a last-resort policy, (ii) entrepreneurs are being …

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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016

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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Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series

Neumark, David - 2013

We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...

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Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners

Andersson, Pernilla - 2006

In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...

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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego - 2019

A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...

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