This paper examines the effects of a shock to angel finance on entrepreneurial activity and employment. Using U … and employment at small entrants, particularly in areas with alternate sources of financing. Employment increases at small …

-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a … particular region. To this end, we analyze and compare patterns of employment growth in the knowledge economy and its subsectors …-intensive employment growth. Our results show that with respect to knowledge-intensive employment, both the Randstad and the Rhine …

a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk declines despite lower employment growth for continuing establishments … - attributable to hiring freezes rather than to layoffs - and a lack of change in firm level employment growth. A plausible …, for non-divisional buyouts, and for buyouts just prior to 2001. -- Buyouts ; Employment ; Financial Constraints ; LBO …

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 …

Although the entrepreneurship process begins with individuals with relatively unique personal attributes and a likely … system? The answer to this sort of research question is not straightforward because different types of entrepreneurship may … what extent the uneven growth of self employment at the county scale “is a response to opportunity or the result of …

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 …

entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than …