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Fertility in South Dublin a Century Ago: A First Look

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Moehling, Carolyn M.; Grada, Cormac O - 2001

Irelands relatively late and feeble fertility transition remains poorly-understood. The leading explanations stress … samples from the 1911 census of Ireland to study fertility in Dublin and Belfast. Our larger project aims to use the extensive … literature on the fertility transition elsewhere in Europe to refine and test leading hypotheses in their Irish context. The …

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Is there a cost associated with an increase in family size beyond child investment? : evidence from developing countries

Cáceres Delpiano, Julio - 2011

Utilizando nacimientos múltiples como variable instrumental (IV) para el tamaño de la familia y datos para 43 países en vías de desarrollo, se encuentra evidencia de que un incremento en el número de niños tiene un costo para toda familia en su conjunto. Las madres son más propensas a...

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The importance of gestation process dynamics

Gordon, Scott R. - 2010

Principal Topic In this paper we seek to highlight the important intermediate role that the gestation process plays in entrepreneurship by examining its key antecedents and its consequences for new venture emergence. In doing so we take a behavioural perspective and argue that it is not only...

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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula

Terjesen, Siri A. - 2007

This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the bulk...

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The role of human capital and strategic intent in internationalisation scope of new technology-based firms

Coeurderoy, Regis; Davidsson, Per; Tywoniak, Stephane - 2008

This paper explores the internationalization scope of new technology based firms (NTBFs) during their early years of operation. Internationalization is considered as a growth strategy in its own right whose successful implementation requires relevant resources and capabilities. We focus on the...

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Firm Size Expectations of Nascent Entrepreneurs

Delmar, Frederic; Davidsson, Per; Aronsson, Magnus - 1999

The purpose of this paper was to examine the factors affecting the future firm size expectations of nascent entrepreneurs. This was done by testing a decision model on a unique data set composed of a random sample of nascent entrepreneurs. The proposed model is based on four different components...

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Initial conditions as predictors of new venture performance: A replication and extension of the Cooper et al. study

Dahlqvist, Jonas; Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000

In the words of Hubbard, Vetter and Little (1998, p. 252), 'systematic replication replaces piecemeal, untested results with useful findings that address practical problems.' We agree with this. We further hold that for empirical relationships to be really interesting and meaningful one should...

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Wage inequality and productivity growth: motivating carrots and crippling sticks: SKOPE Research Paper No. 40, Spring 2002

Rogers, Mark; Vernon, Guy - 2002

Wage inequality is a particular focus of attention not only in public debates over the need for social regulation to support equity, but those over the implications of social regulation for productive performance. The present paper employs panel techniques to examine the comparative historical...

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Threshold Effects and Regional Economic Growth - Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2001

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a...

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HUMAN CAPITAL AND LABOR FLOWS OUT OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA

Bojnec, Stefan; Dries, Liesbeth; Swinnen, Johan F.M. - 2003

This paper analyses of determinants of agricultural labor flows and the role of human capital in this process on the basis of the Slovenian Labor Force Surveys for the years 1993 to 1999. The household heads living in larger households, having a larger farm size, and working full-time (more...

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