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Business dynamics and employment growth: a cross-country analysis
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Diephuis, Bart - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865213
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity intoentrepreneurial positions based on fixed individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360612
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The link between firm births and job creation: Is there a Upas Tree effect?
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David J. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been examined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865210
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The Process of Creative Construction:Knowledge Spillovers,Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Agarwal, Rajshree; Audretsch, David; Sarkar, MB - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008
underlyingmechanism of knowledge spillover strategic entrepreneurship whereby knowledgeinvestments by existing organizations, when coupled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864509
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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
. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864588
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The effect of business regulations on nascent and actual entrepreneurship
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a … sample of countries participation in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two …-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual entrepreneurship rate, while taking into account the interrelationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864969
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Post-Materialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations
Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Roy - 2005
The study of predictors of entrepreneurial activity at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. However, the relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other forces such as institutional and/or cultural factors are at play....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864996
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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownershiop across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across economically developed nations have attracted the attentiion of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural rather than economic influences are assumed to play a decisive role. This paper deals with the influence of cutlural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865013
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COMPENDIA: Harmonizing business ownership data across countries and over time
Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
called the business ownership rate of a country. The data set is called COMPENDIA, which means COMParative ENtrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865021
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The role of Dissatisfaction and Per Capita Income in Explaining Self-Employment across 15 European Countries
Wennekers, Sander; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Noorderhaven, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
This paper deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978-2000, within a framework of occupational choice, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and of per capita income. Using two different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865255