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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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School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
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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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-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …
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-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …
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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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Christian Schade -- Understanding the gender gap in entrepreneurship: a multicountry examination / I. Elaine Allen and Nan S …. Langowitz -- Defining and identifying family entrepreneurship: a new view of entrepreneurs / Ramona K. Zachary, Edward G. Rogoff … entreprenseurship in the United Kingdom / Jonathan Levie and Mark Hart -- Entrepreneurship in world cities / Zoltan Acs, Niels Bosma …
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As governments across the world look to entrepreneurship as a way to increase the wealth and well-being of their … Entry and Entrepreneurial Decisions: The Role of Overconfidence -- 2. Understanding the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: A … Multicountry Examination -- 3. Defining and Identifying Family Entrepreneurship: A New View of Entrepreneurs -- 4. Investor …
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We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...
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We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002166499