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The Dynamics of Self-employment in a Developing Country: Evidence from India
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...
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Government Spending on Education and Closing the Gender Gap : The Case of Developing Economies
Emara, Noha; Hegazy, Azza - 2021
Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a sample of Developing countries over the period 1990 to 2014,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233487
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Financing the Start-up and Operation of Immigrant-owned Businesses: the path taken by African Immigrants in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area of South Africa.
Tengeh, Robertson Khan; Ballard, Harry; Slabbert, Andre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Drawing a sample of 135 successful African immigrant-owned businesses, this paper sets out to investigate how their owners acquired the necessary capital for start-up and growth thereafter. The paper was designed within the quantitative and qualitative research paradigms, in which a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259174
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The theory of entrepreneurship and evolutionary economics
Кантарбаева, Алия; Мустафин, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
The paper presents the analysis of recent developments of Schumpeterian theory of entrepreneurship and innovation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212782
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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The way things are done here – Polish entrepreneurship - having endowned heritage or burden?
Starnawska, Marzena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using case study analysis based on in-depth interviews we aim to extend the entrepreneurship research in transition … context in Poland. Entrepreneurship models build in America and Western Europe do not picture the specifics of … entrepreneurship in transition economies. The author reviews concepts and theses on entrepreneurship in this context and argues that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259343
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Capital-as-a-Service?
Rosa, Frederico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 changed the landscape of financing a business, affecting all projects that are looking for growth based on access to capital. Non-bank finance and new forms of equity access started to emerge not only for attractive born-global start-ups but also for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259491
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Entrepreneurship and Micro and Small Enterprises Growth in Assam
Saikia, Dilip; Das, Kalyani Kangkana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
varied across different enterprises. The findings are important in formulating policy for entrepreneurship development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259889
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Entrepreneurship and Independent Professionals: Why do Professionals not meet with Stereotypes of Entrepreneurship?
Bögenhold, Dieter; Heinonen, Jarna; Akola, Elisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The study discusses myths of entrepreneurship by looking at the overlapping areas of entrepreneurship, self … journalists, translators, interpreters and artists at the blurred boundaries between waged work and entrepreneurship. Findings … reveal that the professions are clearly different and the manifestations of entrepreneurship vary, reflecting the work and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260051
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The Relationship Conflict between Venture Capital and Entrepreneur
Alqatawni, Tahsen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The dilemmas that may encounter entrepreneurship result of an expected conflict between VCs and entrepreneur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260079