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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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Strategies for local economic development within the framework of sustainable human development : inputs to capacity building.

D, Nielsen Short; R, Lindenthal; AL, Vidal Alonso - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1996

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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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The European Cohesion policy and the promotion of entrepreneurship. The case of Andalusia

Romero, Isidoro; Fernández-Serrano, José - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2014) 29, pp. 215-236

This paper discusses the significance, trends and achievements of the entrepreneurship and small and medium … entrepreneurial culture and business environment conditions unfavourable to entrepreneurship have traditionally acted as structural … obstacles to regional development in Andalusia. In order to face this problem, the role of the entrepreneurship policy within …

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Entrepreneurial activity and regional development: an introduction to this special issue

Guerrero, Maribel; Peña-Legazkue, Peña-Legazkue , Iñaki - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 26, pp. 05-15

have analyzed the complicated endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth, but these studies have …

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Assessing technology-based spin-offs from university support units

Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess spin-offs from a university-based technology transfer network. We first detect the regional objectives, inputs and outputs needed to assess spin-offs from support programmes. We then provide evidence on regional mechanisms for firm creation....

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