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entrepreneurship and asks for its overlapping with categories of self-employment and of innovation. Although these terms cover only … partially the same meanings, political discourse often equals the slogan to foster entrepreneurship and innovation with an … firms without further employees. An equation of entrepreneurship with innovation activities and in-creasing self …
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taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human … depth analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship in Italy, thus accounting for the role that variables like the …
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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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The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working on their own having no … prosperous dynamics. However, even the area of entrepreneurship at the margins seems to be a wide field. It highlights not only … the broad margins of entrepreneurship but also the fluent boarders between entrepreneurship and the informal sector on the …
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The notion of risk and entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature. Starting a … about risk attitudes of entrepreneurs and to the literature about necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship. …
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The discussion on entrepreneurship often treats entrepreneurs as agents of ideas of economic change and growth … context entrepreneurship has been treated as a rather homogenous category, internal differences were not in the focus of … academic talk. In public policy discourse entrepreneurship and the labour market category of self-employment are often used …
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Standard analysis of racial inequality incorporates racial classification as an exogenous binary variable. This approach obfuscates the importance of racial self-identity and clouds our ability to understand the relative importance of unobserved productivity-linked attributes versus market...
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This paper contrasts the explanatory power of the mono-cultural and diversity models of racial disparity. The mono-cultural model ignores nativity and ethnic differences among African Americans. The diversity model assumes that culture affects both intra- and interracial labor market disparity....
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This article examines heterogeneity and income inequality among Hispanic Americans. Two processes that influence … Hispanic heterogeneity include acculturation and labor market discrimination because of skin shade/phenotype. I focus on … acculturating into a non-Hispanic white racial identity. However, neither the abandonment of Spanish nor the abandonment of a …
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This article examines the interrelationships among race, culture, skill, and the distribution of wages. I utilize a three-equation system to explore this process: skill is a multidimensional productive attribute measured by years of education and work effort; educational attainment is a function...
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