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Impeded industrial restructuring: The growth penalty

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J. - 2000

This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...

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The effect of entrepreneurship on national economic growth: an analysis using the GEM database

van Stel, André J.; Carree, Martin A.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004

this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th … per capita income. This suggests that entrepreneurship plays a different role in countries in different stages of economic …

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, A. Roy; van Stel, André J.; … - 2005

entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for three separate years in twenty Western countries and Japan … costs of entrepreneurship are the dominant perception in this cultural environment. In a group of low-uncertainty avoidance …

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Self-employment and unemployment in Spanish regions in the period 1979-2001

Golpe, Antonio A.; van Stel, André J. - 2007

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship across 29 countries

Verheul, Ingrid; van Stel, André J.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004

The present study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship from a country perspective. Explanatory variables … are derived from three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship in general …, on female labor force participation, and on female entrepreneurship. To test hypotheses we make use of Global …

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Linking Business Ownership and Perceived Administrative Complexity: An Empirical Analysis of 18 OECD Countries

van Stel, André J.; Stunnenberg, Viktor - 2004

Administrative burdens are known to be a major business constraint for incumbent SMEs in modern economies. Far less is known about the influence of these burdens on the startup of new firms. The current paper examines to what extent perceived administrative complexity related to starting a new...

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The effect of entrepreneurial activity on national economic growth

van Stel, André J.; Carree, Martin A.; Thurik, Roy - 2005

that entrepreneurship plays a different role in countries in different stages of economic development. …

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COMPENDIA: Harmonizing business ownership data across countries and over time

van Stel, André J. - 2005

called the business ownership rate of a country. The data set is called COMPENDIA, which means COMParative ENtrepreneurship …

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Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development

Wennekers, Sander; van Stel, André J.; Thurik, A. Roy; … - 2005

entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development. This would imply a different scope for entrepreneurship policy across … subsequent stages of development. Regressing GEM's 2002 data for nascent entrepreneurship in 36 countries on the level of … taxes (+) and population growth (+). The results suggest that a 'natural rate' of nascent entrepreneurship is to some extent …

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High growth entrepreneurs, public policies and economic growth

Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, S. Jolanda A.; … - 2007

economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …

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