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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether; Frese, … - 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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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319500
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670827
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Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270114
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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries: A microeconomic perspective
Vivarelli, Marco - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in … economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from … firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282123
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Fiscal multipliers and the labour market in the open economy
Faia, Ester; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2010
Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277962
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Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy
Faia, Ester; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611515
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Can microinsurance help prevent child labor? An impact evaluation from Pakistan
Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - 2013
-in-difference techniques we find lower incidence of child labor and lower child labor earnings caused by the innovation. Separating the two … parts of the innovation package, the effects of claim assistance are mostly insignificant, while increased insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293194
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Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Heil, Anton; Smurra, … - 2022
The Jobs of the World Project is a public resource designed to enable research on jobs and poverty across and within countries over the entire development spectrum. At its core is a new data set assembled by harmonising Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and National Censuses (IPUMS) for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470400
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Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U
Basu, Kaushik; Das, Sanghamitra; Dutta, Bhaskar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient is an explicit modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700849