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improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated … with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … running small firms in Athens (Greece) over three months, with data collected before and after the training. The analysis …
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improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated … with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … running small firms in Athens (Greece) over three months, with data collected before and after the training. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351743
How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...
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growth.We formulate two proposals that can make training more counter-cyclical and increase the amount of training. …In Europe, accounting standards prevent larger expenditures on employer-sponsored training from being treated as … investments. Using Sweden as example, we discuss two consequences for training. First, the timing: training will be conducted when …
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This article researches the structure of motivation for training in engineering specialties as well as the satisfaction … from it. It analyses the main factors that form students' motivation for training and the interrelationships between them … the specific factors that form the motivation for the students in the aforementioned specialties, the problems in their …
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We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet been forced to abandon an inflation target, while many...
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Using a nationwide sample of 14,424 new firms, we find that attractive human capital traits at business entry for entrepreneurs include high educational attainment, owners who lie in the middle of—as opposed to the tails of—the age distribution, and family business background. Attractive...
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This article investigates empirically whether and to what extent initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurial performance once the venture has been started. Prior empirical research in this area could investigate this issue only indirectly by lack of data. The key contribution of this...
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The main purpose of the present paper is to disentangle the mix-up of the notions of success and satisfaction which is … relationship and measurement. We show that satisfaction contains success as one component, and that both coincide under the … provide two examples of sequential decision-making mechanisms in order to illustrate the difference between success and …
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If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
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