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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
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Movies
Michalopulos, Stelios; Rauh, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Why are certain movies more successful in some markets than others? Are the entertainment products we consume reflective of our core values and beliefs? These questions drive our investigation into the relationship between a society's oral tradition and the financial success of films. We combine...
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Roots of Inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped during the prehistoric Out-of-Africa … from Africa …
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 24, pp. 1-19
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this … trade on the “sending” countries in Africa, with attention to their economic, institutional, demographic, and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619155
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The value orientation of entrepreneurs in challenging institutional contexts : insights from a unique historical episode
Wyrwich, Michael - 2020
institutional contexts. However, most evidence exists for contexts with more or less entrepreneurship-facilitating and stable … framework conditions for entrepreneurship. In both contexts, entrepreneurs are challenged either by external resistance toward … literature is not an artefact of stable entrepreneurship-facilitating institutional framework conditions. …
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Economic opportunity and evolution : beyond landscapes and bounded rationality
Felin, Teppo; Kauffman, Stuart A.; Koppl, Roger; Longo, … - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 8 (2014) 4, pp. 269-282
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Exposure to transit migration, public attitudes and entrepreneurship
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Guriev, Sergej - 2020
Does exposure to mass migration affect economic behavior, attitudes and beliefs of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 and 2016 rounds of the Life in Transition Survey and data on the main land routes taken by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201384
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Constructing entrepreneurial opportunity : environmental movements and the transformation of regional regulatory regimes
Lee, Brandon; Sine, Wesley - In: Applied evolutionary economics and economic geography : …, (pp. 93-120). 2007
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Obituary: Steven Klepper
Cantner, Uwe; Dinopoulos, Elias; Hanusch, Horst; … - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 23 (2013) 3, pp. 503-505
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Dystechnia : a model of technology deficiency and implications for entrepreneurial opportunity
Stewart, McDonald R.; Carayannis, Elias G. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-36
-order ignorance implies entrepreneurial opportunity. Entrepreneurship is the recognition and exploitation of economic potential by … ; entrepreneurship ; evolutionary economics ; innovation ; robust competitiveness ; sustainable entrepreneurship ; technology …
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