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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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Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis?
Naudé, Wim - 2016
to its euro and refugee crises, Europe is suffering from an entrepreneurship crisis. Entrepreneurs are increasingly older … crisis. Demographic changes and institutional shortcomings are thus at the core of the entrepreneurship crisis in Europe. …The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479335
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Self-Employment and Parenthood: Exploring the Impact of Partners, Children and Gender
Aidis, Ruta; Wetzels, Cecile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper explores the relationship between self-employment, partner’s employment, the household and children on a mother’s and father’s probability to choose self-employment. Few studies are available on this topic and their analysis is mainly limited to the female role in the North...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763591
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262299
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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - 2002
Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262745
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Institutions, networks and entrepreneurship development in Russia: an exploration
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - 2006
. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267935
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Mexican-American entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008
less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268891
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Entrepreneurial entry: which institutions matter?
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269212
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'I want to, but I also need to': start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2009
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269419