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growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier. -- Growth ; skills ; innovation ; selection …
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intentionality towards entrepreneurship and innovation. Following the entrepreneurship research, it is suggested that innovative …
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Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship …. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of … the possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus …
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the largest decrease are in art, culture, and recreation (-14.8 percent); in education, law and social, commu- nity and …
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research confirms increasing employment, hours worked, and small business ownership as provinces began reopening their …
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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …
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employership and in self-employment. Our sample of 44 countries consists mostly of European countries but varies broadly in terms … countries. In the aggregate data we observe a gender gap in employers of 67% and a gender gap in self-employment of 48%. These … controlling for a large set of control variables that include marital status, age, education, number of children, wealth, the …
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and that this gap takes its largest value for managers with tertiary education or more. In terms of their number of …
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This paper studies the aggregate effects of the existing differences between male and female-run firms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the International Labor Organization (ILO), we show that only about one-fourth of the total firms...
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order to carry out innovation. This endogenous threshold level falls as the economy moves closer to the technological … frontier, enabling more entrepreneurs to be engaged in an innovation-based strategy, and consequently, moving the economy from … a technological structure that is based on imitation of foreign technologies to one where domestic innovation dominates …
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