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The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View
Hessels, Jolanda; Naudé, Wim - 2017
Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated and its negative impact underestimated. It is moreover also because there is no unified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786953
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine : A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262067
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to schooling in both countries but the increase is much bigger in … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the … school graduates for Ukraine using the distributions of Russian characteristics, returns to characteristics, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703252
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Is Germany the North Star of labor market policy?
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
experience as a model for effective, evidence-based policymaking. Flexible management of working time (through overtime and short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293117
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293135
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Pathways from School to Work in the Developing World
Manacorda, Marco; Rosati, Furio C.; Ranzani, Marco; … - 2015
This paper uses micro data from the ILO-STWT surveys to provide novel evidence on the duration, end point and determinants of the transition from school to work in a sample of 23 low and middle-income countries around the world. The negative effects of low levels of human capital and high levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401712
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Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale
Bryan, Mark L.; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2013
Cross-national differences in outcomes are often analysed using regression analysis of multilevel country datasets, examples of which include the ECHP, ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We review the regression methods applicable to this data structure, pointing out problems with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328911
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What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis
Ehrlich, Isaac; Cook, Adam; Yin, Yong - 2018
Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931612
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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262026