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This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
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In this study, we quantify the role of foreign-born founders in high-tech entrepreneurship in a nationally …
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneur-ship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
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and a tradition of entrepreneurship have long-run positive effects on development in regions that face disruptive shocks …. Entrepreneurship and knowledge play a less important role for development across West German regions, where no significant shocks …
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This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … general knowledge and economically useful knowledge. Also missing is a mechanism (such as entrepreneurship) converting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090491
globalization. It is a model based on growth, expansion and constant innovation. However, it is accompanied by social problems which … from the application of what has been a primarily American institution: Philanthropy. We present the Entrepreneurship …
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This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032006
whereby the wage bill share of skilled workers in a given firm is related to international exposure and technology adoption … developed countries also experienced a higher increase in their labour cost share of skilled workers. This finding is a further …
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Using data on the presence of the Goethe Institutes (GI) in 134 importer countries between 1978 and 2014, we study the effect that language learning opportunities abroad have on German exports. We employ a gravity model of trade with a single exporter and use the Poisson-Pseudo Maximum...
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Immigrants can expand labor supply and compete for jobs with native-born workers. But immigrants may also start new … immigrants in entrepreneurship. We ask how often immigrants start companies, how many jobs these firms create, and how firms … immigrants as founders and workers. The findings suggest that immigrants act more as "job creators" than "job takers" and play …
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