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"Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …
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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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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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entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary survey data we collected in the … results show that acquiring new skills during the pandemic helps maintain an existing business and encourages start-ups in …. While the pandemic-driven financial worries are associated with business closure intentions, they also inspire new business …
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the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to July 2020). Based on a caseness measure, the prevalence of psychological … of the pandemic (April 2020) other socioeconomic factors declined in their share of socioeconomic inequality, while age …
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The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … with reduced business risks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for both small and medium enterprises. The study indicates that …
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the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small … this trend in the third quarter of 2020.The increase in closures rates in the first two quarters of the pandemic was …
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enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …
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In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the … entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in … standard curriculum.This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor …
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The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
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