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The effect of schooling on parental integration
Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023
Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266685
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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies
Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008
A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically …-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms … that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the …
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032006
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012
This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...
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The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship and foreign direct investment
Ács, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; O'Gorman, Colm; … - 2007
We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
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The geography and determinants of entrepreneurship
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2008
Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational choice, although there are compelling reasons to posit that spatial location influences economic behavior. Using Bayesian semiparametric methodologies and geoadditive...
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
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TV and entrepreneurship
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021
This paper analyzes empirically whether individuals' decisions to start an own business can be influenced via television (TV). To identify its effect, we utilize exogenous regional variation in the availability of TV that conveyed images conducive to entrepreneurship and the notion that...
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: An evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...
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