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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level
Verheul, Ingrid; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
measures of female entrepreneurship: the number of female entrepreneurs and the share of women in the total number of …Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864985
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“Entrepreneurs out of Necessity”: A Snapshot
Poschke, Markus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey area sizeable group across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360595
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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864522
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High Growth Entrepreneurs, Public Policies and Economic Growth
Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, Jolanda; Stel, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national … economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … extent to which high growth ambitions of entrepreneurs affect GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. Our results suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864588
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Entrepreneurial Entry Exit and Re-Entry: The Extent and Nature of Opportunity Identification
Ucbasaran, Deniz; Westhead, Paul; Wright, Mike - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This study utilizes a human capital framework to explore whether business ownership experience is associated with the number of business opportunities identified, the number of identified opportunities that are pursued, and the nature of those opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864964
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Renascent Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurial Preferences Subsequent to Firm Exit
Stam, Erik; Audretsch, David; Meijaard, Joris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
entrepreneurs? According to the logic of economic models of firm dynamics there is no reason to re-enter into entrepreneurship …Why should individuals that have exited their firm consider re-entering into entrepreneurship, i.e. become renascent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864967
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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries
Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure...
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Trust in cooperation or ability? - An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2003
We examine experimentally two different types of trust: trust in another party's cooperation and trust in ability. In the cooperation condition, player A sends x {0, X} to player B. The amount x is multiplied by c = 3, and B can return y {0,3x}. (...)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005845180
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An Anatomy of EconomicInequality in the UK
Hills, John; Brewer, Mike; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Lister, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008785038
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Can Personality Explain what is Underlying Women's Unwillingness to Compete?
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2011
There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as mendo and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personalityvariables toto understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a...
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