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This article describes how “START-UP NY” is a state-funded economic development program that encourages businesses to locate to several of its college campuses in exchange for a 0% tax rate for business and their employees. While the program has received much coverage in the popular press,...
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Sustainable development and entrepreneurship are increasingly high profile issues and matters of importance to … different international agendas. Alongside this interest, there have emerged studies on entrepreneurship and innovation that … bridge the gap that exists in the literature on the relationship between innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship, in the …
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There are a variety of different conditions that support entrepreneurship and affect sustainable development. The aim … variables of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The geographic regions the authors focus on in the analysis are 1) Asia … entrepreneurship variables with sustainable growth in order to help explain best interventionist priorities to use in order to foster …
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between entrepreneurship and path dependency as two opposing concepts. Rather, we posit that these concepts are related to … entrepreneurship in a regional context, focusing in particular on their complementary nature. The conceptual framework proposed in this …
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regional entrepreneurship index that captures the essence of the contextual features of entrepreneurship and fills a gap in the … Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI). Originally the GEDI has been developed to measure national level of … entrepreneurship. The GEDI refers to the contextual feature of entrepreneurship by focusing on the twelve pillars of entrepreneurial …
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Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...
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This paper draws on data from Uganda's 2013 World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES), which comprises data on 762 firms across Uganda to assess the effects of the business environment, with particular interest on the impact of finance on firm growth by focusing on differences across firm size. Unlike...
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Selbstständige haben während der Covid-19-Pandemie im Vergleich zu abhängig Beschäftigten besonders starke Einkommensverluste erlitten. Zu ihrer Unterstützung hat die Bundesregierung daher verschiedene Programme mit Liquiditätshilfen aufgelegt. Im Frühjahr 2020 startete der Bund die...
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This paper presents a systematic review of (a) the impact of entrepreneurship on economic, social and environmental … welfare and (b) the factors determining this impact. Research over the past 25 years shows that entrepreneurship is one cause … of macroeconomic development, but that the relationship between entrepreneurship and welfare is very complex. The …
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