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A Practical Method to Estimate Entrepreneurship's Reward

Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

In the present note, an effort will be made for a contribution to the economic theory by introducing a practical method to estimate entrepreneurship´s reward. As an example, a regression, based on the estimation of entrepreneurship´s reward, with baning panel data will yield the same main...

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COMPENDIA: Harmonizing business ownership data across countries and over time

Stel, Andre van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

This paper presents a harmonized data set over the period 1972-2002, containing two-yearly data on the number of non-agricultural business owners and the size of the labour force for 23 OECD countries, as well as the quotient of these two variables which is called the business ownership rate of...

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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; van Stel, André; Thurik, Roy - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on...

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Entrepreneurship Capital: Determinants and Impact on Regional Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2005

entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …-tually influence economic performance by generating more entrepreneurial activity. The purpose of this paper is explicitly link these …-ship capital has a positive impact on regional economic performance. …

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Entrepreneurship in the EU: to wish and not to be

Grilo, Isabel; Irigoyen, Jesus Maria - 2005

It is now widely acknowledged that the entrepreneurial capacity in an economy is a key determinant of economic growth and productivity improvements. This paper uses survey data from the 15 EU Member States and the US to establish the effect of demographic and other variables on latent and actual...

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Roy; van Stel, André; … - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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Market Concentration, Market Dynamism and Business Survival

Burke, Andrew; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2006

The paper uses a unique dataset comprising the population of new ventures that enter the UK market in 1998. We argue that we would expect the effect of market concentration on firm survival to be different according to whether an industry is static (low entry and exit) or dynamic. In our...

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Could The Irish Miracle Be Repeated in Hungary?

Ács, Zoltán J.; O'Gorman, Colm; Szerb, Laszlo; … - 2006

It is widely recognized that foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role in economic development. Internationalization theory is used to explore how inward FDI impacts entrepreneurial activity. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we find significant differences in...

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Allocation and Productivity of Time in new Ventures of Female and Male Entrepreneurships

Verheul, Ingrid; Carree, Martin; Thurik, Roy - 2006

This paper investigates time allocation decisions in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs using a new model that distinguishes between effects of preferences (what they like) and productivity (what they are good at) on the number of working hours. Using data of 1203 entrepreneurs we...

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