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Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets
Faggio, Giulia; Silva, Olmo - In: Journal of Urban Economics 84 (2014) C, pp. 67-85
We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …
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The Relationship between Business Ownership and Unemployment in Spain: A Matter of Quantity or Quality?/La relación entre el autoempleo y el desempleo en España: Una cuestión de ca...
VERHEUL, INGRID; VAN STEL, ANDRÉ; THURIK, ROY; URBANO, … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 24 (2006) Agosto, pp. 435-457
This paper examines the interrelations between self-employment and unemployment rates for Spain in the period 1972-2004, comparing them with the general pattern observed for OECD countries. We apply the model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) to Spain. The divergence...
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Factors affecting the entrepreneurial dynamics in Italy: a comparison across European countries
MICOZZI, Alessandra - In: Economia Marche / Journal of Applied Economics XXXII (2013) 1, pp. 79-95
into consideration both, macroeconomic factors, such as the overall institutional context that support entrepreneurship and …
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The effects of exposure to hyperinflation on occupational choice
Mello, João M.P. de; Waisman, Caio; Zilberman, Eduardo - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 109-123
We use data on immigrants who live in the United States to study the effects of exposure to hyperinflation on occupational choice. To do so, we calculate the number of years an individual had lived under hyperinflation before arriving to the US. We find that its marginal effect on the...
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The role of culture on self-employment
Marcén, Miriam - In: Economic Modelling 44 (2014) S1, pp. 20-20
This work examines the effect of cultural differences on self-employment. All the individuals considered in the analysis are second-generation immigrants who were born and live under the same laws and institutions in the US. Following an epidemiological approach, the variation in self-employment...
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Ethnic capital and self-employment: a spatially autoregressive network approach
Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-24
<Para ID="Par1">Immigrants experience substantial disadvantages in employment in the host country. “Ethnic capital” (e.g. the ethnic network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants. Previous international studies adopt either ethnic concentration or language as proxy for immigrants’ network in host...</para>
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How much of a socialist legacy? The re-emergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Sorgner, Alina; … - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 427-446
—relates to the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany. This region is particularly well suited for such a study because … period, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture that can be regarded as an informal …
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Determinants of self-employment survival in Europe
Millán, José; Congregado, Emilio; Román, Concepción - In: Small Business Economics 38 (2012) 2, pp. 231-258
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Determinants of job satisfaction: a European comparison of self-employed and paid employees
Millán, José; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; Aguado, … - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 3, pp. 651-670
The job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994–2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction: job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms 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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