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Topic of the paper is the development of professional self-employment during the last decades in Germany. The … 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 …
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This study contributes to the explanation to growing informality by proposing and testing a simple framework that link …
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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 …
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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 paper contributes to the interpretation of entrepreneurship based on the effect of knowledge and the cultural … background. Entrepreneurship is defined as both the self-employment and the entry density rates, comparing the two models. The … a regression analysis. The results confirm that cultural background strongly affects both entrepreneurship rates …
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and incomes, the enormous heterogeneity of the category of entrepreneurship becomes evident. The span reaches from best …
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It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour market, or if those activities reflect new modes of labour market integration revealing new opportunities and markets, which are especially due in wide parts to the service and...
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