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Canadian small businesses' employees and owners during COVID-19

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...

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Gender specifics in entrepreneurs’ personal characteristics

Sirec, Karin; Mocnik, Dijana - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 17 (2012) 1, pp. 11-39

categories, but not human capital. Women remain an unexploited source of entrepreneurship; thus, Slovenia should establish … effective mechanisms to promote female entrepreneurship. …

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Entrepreneurship, human capital, and labor demand : a story of signaling and matching

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Nielsen, Kristian; Noseleit, Florian; … - 2015

Contrary to employees, there is no clear evidence that entrepreneurs' education positively effects income. In this study we propose that entrepreneurs can benefit from their education as a signal during the recruitment process of employees. This process is then assumed to follow a matching of...

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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Optimal allocation of relief funds: the case of the paycheck protection program

Joaquim, Gustavo; Netto, Felipe - 2021 - This version: October 2021

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a large and unprecedented small-business support program that allocated $800 billion in loans and grants to small businesses following the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. This paper explores the optimal allocation of funds across firms and the distortions...

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Bank incentives and the effect of the paycheck protection program

Joaquim, Gustavo; Netto, Felipe - 2021 - This version: October 2021

We assess the role of banks in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a large and unprecedented smallbusiness support program instituted as a response to the COVID-19 crisis in the United States. In 2020, the PPP administered more than $525 billion in loans and grants to small businesses through...

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State-based conflict and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, Ernesto; Brück, Tilman - 2023

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 …

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