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Global Connectedness and Bilateral Economic Linkages - Which Countries?

Rose, Jim; Stevens, Wayne - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004

Access to off-shore markets, technology, and ideas are important to greater productivity and higher living standards in New Zealand. Global connectedness requires deep and rich links with other countries. However, as a small country, we only have the resources to focus on a handful of countries....

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Institutions, Firms and Economic Growth

Frances, Jane - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004

This paper reviews the literature on institutions and explores the ways in which institutions can influence economic growth, with a particular focus on how institutions affect the use that firms make of human capital to improve their productivity. It discusses the influence of underlying...

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Migration and Economic Growth: a 21st Century Perspective

Moody, Cat - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2006

While there is extensive literature on the determinants of migration and its microeconomic effects, the New Zealand theoretical or empirical literature specifically examining the effects of migration on economic growth is not as comprehensive. In New Zealand there has been an implicit underlying...

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Adult literacy and economic growth

Johnston, Grant - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2004

Developed countries, including New Zealand, used to consider their populations wholly literate, in the sense that almost all adults could read and write. Contemporary definitions expand the concept of literacy to include wider cognitive skills, and extend it across the whole population: people...

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Demographic Change and New Zealand’s Economic Growth

Bryant, John - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2003

New Zealand has, by OECD standards, high birth rates. This has provided New Zealand with a relatively young population and continuing labour force growth. Both these features are, on many accounts, good for economic growth. Yet most discussions of New Zealand’s economic performance and its...

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Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

Feldmann, Manuel; Lukes, Martin; Uhlaner, Lorraine - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2020) 2, pp. 997-1013

gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of …

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Analyzing the determinants of entrepreneurship in European cities

García, Andrés Barreneche - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 1, pp. 77-98

This study investigated the determinants of business creation as a measure of entrepreneurship in European cities. It … examined supply- and demand-side elements, actual and equilibrium rates of entrepreneurship, institutions and culture. These … European Commission’s Small Business Act, which provides guidelines for the conception and implementation of entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurship, innovation, and human flourishing

Henrekson, Magnus - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 3, pp. 511-528

(Phelps <CitationRef CitationID="CR67">2013</CitationRef>) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book … achieved through a purposeless quest for wealth and material consumption, but rather through adventure, entrepreneurship, and … entrepreneurship are not merely the keys to economic growth, but to life satisfaction as well. This essay discusses topics in …

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National culture, entrepreneurship and economic development: different patterns across the European Union

Liñán, Francisco; Fernandez-Serrano, José - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 685-701

variable that helps explain the level of economic development and reinforces the effect of entrepreneurship on the income level … Entrepreneurship Monitor provides information regarding entrepreneurial activity. Using linear regression analysis, cultural and …

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Comment on Acs and Varga: Entrepreneurship, agglomeration and technological change

Klarl, Torben - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 215-218

-national, industrial-level data for nine selected European countries in order to investigate the link between entrepreneurship …:759–784, <CitationRef CitationID="CR7">1995</CitationRef>), they find that both agglomeration and entrepreneurship exhibit a statistically … rates but leaves out the effects induced by agglomeration and entrepreneurship on the level of knowledge. This might lead to …

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