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entrepreneurship? We compile four hand-collected measures of high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship (VC-funded IPOs, self …-made billionaire entrepreneurs, unicorn start-ups, and young top global firms founded by individual entrepreneurs) and sixmeasures … entrepreneurship and the other relating to small business activity. Except for the World Bank measure of firm registration of limited …
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We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …
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order to unmistakably identify Schumpeterian entrepreneurs we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) on Forbes Magazine …'s list who became wealthy by founding new firms. In this way we identify 996 billionaire entrepreneurs in over fifty … entrepreneurs, an economically important group. We demonstrate that the common practice of relying on self-employment and related …
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Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …
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Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only … indirectly addresses how entrepreneurship informs individuals' relative well-being. We theorize on the nuanced relationship … between entrepreneurship and equality of eudaimonic well-being through the lens of New Institutional Economics. Drawing on …
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Amidst considerable debate on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality, scholarship only … indirectly addresses how entrepreneurship informs individuals’ relative well-being. We theorize on the nuanced relationship … between entrepreneurship and equality of eudaimonic well-being through the lens of New Institutional Economics. Drawing on …
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This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …
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