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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271286
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931627
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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272648
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Size matters: Entrepreneurial entry and government
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272659
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282246
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289883
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283965
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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate … entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with … access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268348
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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross … a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274617
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Out of sight, out of mind: migration, entrepreneurship and social capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269590