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The New Alternative Women’s Entrepreneurship Education: e-Learning and Virtual Universities
Markovic, Mirjana Radovic; Nelson-Porter, Brenda; … - In: Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (2009), pp. 1-12
Having in mind that due to fast changes in techniques and technology especially in the last decade of 20th century, new kinds of business and jobs emerged, the need for new knowledge became very clear. Accordingly, everywhere in the world the existing education system is being redefined, and...
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Stars and Misfits: Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions
Åstebro, Thomas; Chen, Jing; Thompson, Peter - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 11, pp. 1999-2017
model. <i>This paper was accepted by Lee Fleming, entrepreneurship and innovation.</i> …
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - CESifo - 2012
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …
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Sex Imbalance, Marriage Competition, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from rural China
Yuan, Yan; Rong, Zhao; Xu, Lihe - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
It is well acknowledged that the entrepreneurship is important to economic development. In this paper, we suggest a … gender-related determinant of entrepreneurship, local sex imbalance. Using a 2009 rural finance survey, we examine how this …
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APPLYING A METACOGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE INFLUENCE OF METACOGNITIVE DIMENSIONS ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS
URBAN, BORIS - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 20 (2012) 02, pp. 203-225
This paper contributes to research on metacognitions which focuses on cognitive processes that enable entrepreneurs to create new ventures and to think beyond existing knowledge structures to become adaptable in an entrepreneurial context. Two streams of research, entrepreneurial intentions and...
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UNDERLYING LOGICS THAT TRANSFORM SURVIVAL OR SUBSISTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUSTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
HE, XIAOHONG; CHI, RENYONG - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350018-1
survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884466
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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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