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A Note on Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Economic Growth
Thurik, Roy - 2010
aspects of the recent scientific literature on the relation between entrepreneurship and small business, on the one hand, and … pay a penalty in terms of forgone growth. It also pays attention to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a new and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758415
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jorn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, Roy - 2014
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instru-mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196996
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Entrepreneurial Activity, Self-Perception and Gender
Verheul, I.; Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Roy - 2012
entrepreneurship, as well as direct and indirect effects of gender. Results support the model of both direct and indirect effects of … gender. The paper provides insights into gender issues in entrepreneurship as well as the definition of entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092508
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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208199
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Determinants of Entrepreneurial Engagement Levels in Europe and the Us
Grilo, Isabel - 2010
various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and 2003 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758163
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - 2008
to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279550
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Entrepreneurial engagement levels in the European Union
Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
A multinomial logit model and survey data from the 25 EU member states and the US are used to establish the effect of demographic and other variables on various entrepreneurial engagement levels. These engagement levels range from "never thought about starting a business" to "thinking about it",...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864989
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Encountered Problems and Outcome Status in Nascent Entrepreneurship
Gelderen, Marco van - 2010
The relationship is investigated between outcome status and encountered problems in the business start-up process. Contrary to expectations, we find that starters do not differ from quitters in number and type of problems encountered, and that problems encountered generally do not affect outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757797
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Explaining Preferences and Actual Involvement in Self-Employment : New Insights into the Role of Gender
Verheul, I. - 2013
point at gender-based obstacles to entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753672
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Climbing the Entrepreneurial Ladder : The Role of Gender
Grilo, Isabel - 2012
We investigate whether women and men differ with respect to the steps they take in the entrepreneurial process, distinguishing between five successive steps described by the following positions: (1) quot;never thought about itquot;; (2) quot;thinking about starting up a businessquot;; (3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755251