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The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this …, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such as Hinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … tradition of the caste system influence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behavior. …
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This paper investigates the variation in entrepreneurship across cities of the Commonwealth of Independent States … suggest that banking reform facilitates entrepreneurship, whereas the size of the state discourages it. Our results confirm a … U-shaped relationship between per-capita income and entrepreneurship. We also find that cities with higher concentration …
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Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering 'breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...
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entrepreneurship in a more holistic manner. We provide econometric evidence of the impact of past experience on all three …
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Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational … presence of spatial occupational neighborhoods and a clear north-south divide in self-employment choice in India when …
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(CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize … relationship between human capital and technological entrepreneurship, considering the knowledge and skills required to …
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Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach den Folgen von Internationalisierungsprozessen kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU …
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Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
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and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …
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