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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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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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In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one … of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human … human capital and economic growth in Bulgaria for the years of socialism and the transition. The purpose of the thesis is to …
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stocks at the beginning of transition to market economy? What happened to human capital formation during the transition? We … attempt to answer these questions using evidence from Bulgaria. This is also a story about how a communist government had … both communism and transition. Finally, we identify key policy and political measures which have affected human capital …
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Entrepreneurship is an important intangible asset of nations. The relatively recent progress in its measurement, mainly … with the Global Entrepreneurship Development Index (GEDI), suggests that previous questions related to its determinants and … effect of corruption reduction on GEDI and thus the positive relationship between an intangible good that is entrepreneurship …
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are more likely to transition into self-employment in non-agriculture. Belonging to a backward class has a negative effect …
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Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around …
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discuss the implications of our finding for entrepreneurship-policy making. Suggestions to improve governmental start …
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The present study is based on 5208 observations, which is comprised of participant households of microcredit programs, non-participant households of program villages as well as non-participant households from control villages. We found that among the participant households 37% depend on wage as...
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This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...
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