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The Impact of Personal Characteristics and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany / Zur Bedeutung von individuel...

Wagner, Joachim - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 223 (2003) 2, pp. 204-222

Summary The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating the impact of personal characteristics and attitudes, and of the regional “entrepreneurial milieu”, on the individual...

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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991–2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten / Self-Employment in 15 European Countries 1991–2003

Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 2, pp. 153-167

Summary The number of self-employed workers in Europe has been in decline since the 1990s. At the same time unemployment has decreased and GDP per capita increased. In this study we analyse macroeconomic causes of these trends for the EU 15. We use data from the European Labour Force Survey for...

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Ştiinţa managementului conform perspectivei lui Frederick W. Taylor: între teorie şi practică

Radu-Cristian, Muşetescu - In: Revista OEconomica (2012) 04

“The Principles of Scientific Management” by Frederick Taylor is among the first attempts to set up a coherent set of principles and rules in the practice of management. While Taylor seems to have gone too far by claiming that the status of his statements is scientific, we argue that he made...

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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in small enterprises in Viet Nam

Phạm, Thị Thu Hang - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002

Examines the economic significance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Viet Nam and assesses the policy and legal environment for MSEs in seven key areas: specific MSE policies; business laws and regulations; taxation; labour policy; trade; finance, credit and bankruptcy polices; and...

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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in SMMEs in South Africa

Mollentz, Jennifer - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002

Examines the role of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in employment and the economy in South Africa and assesses the impact of the policy and legislative environment on these enterprises. Focuses on the number and quality of jobs being created in the sector.

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Jobs, gender and small enterprises in Africa and Asia : lessons drawn from Bangladesh, the Philippines, Tunisia and Zimbabwe

Nichols Marcucci, Pamela - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2001

Provides an overview of the situation of women micro and small entrepreneurs against a back drop of the four countries' economic conditions and the gender based socio-cultural, legal and political systems in place in these countries.

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How much of a socialist legacy? The re-emergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy

Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Sorgner, Alina; … - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 427-446

—relates to the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany. This region is particularly well suited for such a study because … period, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture that can be regarded as an informal …

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Determinants of self-employment survival in Europe

Millán, José; Congregado, Emilio; Román, Concepción - In: Small Business Economics 38 (2012) 2, pp. 231-258

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Determinants of job satisfaction: a European comparison of self-employed and paid employees

Millán, José; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; Aguado, … - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 3, pp. 651-670

The job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994–2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction: job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...

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Analyzing the determinants of entrepreneurship in European cities

García, Andrés Barreneche - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 1, pp. 77-98

This study investigated the determinants of business creation as a measure of entrepreneurship in European cities. It … examined supply- and demand-side elements, actual and equilibrium rates of entrepreneurship, institutions and culture. These … European Commission’s Small Business Act, which provides guidelines for the conception and implementation of entrepreneurship …

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