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Why Has Unemployment in Algeria Been Higher Than in Mena and Transition Countries
Kpodar, Kangni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper analyzes the determinants of labor market performance in Algeria. When the model is estimated with panel data on a sample of MENA and transition countries for 1995- 2005, the results suggest that lower growth in labor productivity in Algeria is associated with higher unemployment than...
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Italy; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This Selected Issues Paper focuses on structural reforms and fiscal devaluation in Italy. Italy’s economy has a number of important strengths. Despite these strengths, Italy’s economic performance has lagged behind its peers. The authorities’ reform plans are under way in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243765
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Italy; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Based on the economic literature, various policy measures and institutions in the product and labor markets that increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between Vertical Fiscal Imbalances (VFIs) and fiscal performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244125
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L’evoluzione della presenza femminile nell’agricoltura italiana ed i nuovi tratti dell’imprenditoria delle donne
Bertolini, Paola - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2014
entrepreneurship. Agriculture Census data and other statistical sources allow to underline the relevant transformation of female … entrepreneurship. This modern and dynamic trait of female enterprises is driven and supported by the new direction of EU agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103464
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START-UP FINANCING SOURCES: DOES GENDER MATTER? SOME EVIDENCE FOR EU AND ROMANIA
Alina, Badulescu - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) special, pp. 207-213
Although financial resources are very important in SMEs in general, and for start-ups in particular, many entrepreneurs face numerous restrictions in finding sources for start-up financing. The present article aims to investigate the similarities or differences in start-up financing sources due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366120
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The Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme and Women Entrepreneurship in Science and Technology: a Catalyst for Enhancing Female Participation in National Development
Bilesanmi-Awoderu, J.B.; Kalesanwo, O.O. - In: Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (2009), pp. 72-87
This paper discussed how UBE programme could be used to promote women entrepreneurship in science and technology with … on – UBE programme, Entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship and women scientists were thoroughly reviewed. Militating … factors against women scientists’ entrepreneurship in Nigeria were established. Based on these factors, suggestions for …
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Female Entrepreneurship Research: A Classification of Results
Vita, Luisa De; Mari, Michela; Poggesi, Sara - In: DSI Essays Series 26 (2012)
multiyear collaborative study in order to deepen the main features of female entrepreneurship, with a specific interest in the … female entrepreneurship research, covering 191 articles published between 2000 and 2012 in both business & management and … sociological journals. Results show that the interest of academic literature in female entrepreneurship increases on average from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705959
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“ATTRACTIVENESS” VERSUS “CONSTRAIN” IN SELF-EMPLOYMENT OPTION IN A CERTAIN FIELD FOR MANAGER WOMEN OF THEIR OWN BUSINESS IN THE WEST OF ROMANIA
Anca, Dodescu - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 46-52
Starting from the way in which women, generally speaking, understand entrepreneurship – as a choice or as a necessity … factors of the feminine entrepreneurship, respective activity fields preferred by women for self-employment. The second part …, professional studies and activity fields in the case of feminine entrepreneurship in the West of Romania, results of AntrES project …
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ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATIONS: ARE WOMEN DRIVEN BY DIFFERENT MOTIVATORS THAN MEN? (I – THE LITERATURE)
Badulescu, Alina - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 234-241
The present article has the goal to reveal the (eventually) differences between entrepreneurial motivations between men and women, in the case of EU and Romania. In the first part, we make a brief research into the literature related to this subject, and in the second part we shall reveal the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008787409
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ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATIONS: ARE WOMEN DRIVEN BY DIFFERENT MOTIVATORS THAN MEN? (II - SOME EVIDENCE FOR EU AND ROMANIA)
Badulescu, Alina - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 2, pp. 358-364
The present article has the goal to reveal the (eventually) differences between entrepreneurial motivations between men and women, in the case of EU and Romania. In the first part, we make a brief research into the literature related to this subject, and in the second part we shall reveal the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008829734