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Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059097
Entrepreneurs out of necessity identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across …
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"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across … market. This evidence is a challenge for existing theories of heterogeneous firms. -- Entrepreneurship ; firm size …
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
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about their effects on aggregate productivity and income in Chile. We find that the observed gender gaps in entrepreneurship …
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models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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Policy in developed countries is often based on the assumption that higher business ownership rates induce economic value. Recent microeconomic empirical evidence casts doubts on the validity of this assumption or, at least, leads to a more nuanced view: Especially the top performing business...
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-farming entrepreneurship. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate …
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We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …
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