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What works in supporting women-led businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...

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Entrepreneurial entry: which institutions matter?

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...

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Entrepreneurship in transition economies: the role of institutions and generational change

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …

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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …

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Size matters: Entrepreneurial entry and government

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …

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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …

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Networking entrepreneurs

Vega-Redondo, Fernando; Pin, Paolo; Ubfal, Diego; … - 2024

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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem

Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014

This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...

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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2020

A randomized controlled trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive short-term impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men and disappear 12 months after the training. The main channel is increased adoption of recommended business...

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