We study the employment growth for entrepreneurial ventures that received a government-sponsored participative loan (PL … 2005 and 2011. We find evidence that PLs significantly boosted their beneficiaries' employment. In the two years following … loan issuance, a 1-million-Euro PL generated an increase in average employment by between 12.1 (PSM) and 14.7 (2SLS) units …

-banked village between 2005 and 2013 (Treatment Group) mitigated the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and employment. The increase in … number of female enterprises and in the size of female employment occurs fully driven by non-agricultural sector, whereas a … shift is observed in male entrepreneurship from agricultural to non-agricultural sector. We also find evidence that this …

This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …

Is the poor aggregate employment growth of the manufacturing sector in Sub-Saharan African countries the outcome of … creation and destruction rates simultaneously follow each other. Second, to expand employment growth, effort should be …

employment promotion (involving income generation and small enterprise and co-operative development, public investment for job … employment and expanding social protection during the last 10-15 years, in particular, largely targeting those poor women mostly …

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important …

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important …

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important …