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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : critical questions
Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 5, pp. 1-16
entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we show that the standard policy response to migrants and migrant … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super … development in both sending and receiving countries, not least through reducing the shares of migrants that are reluctant …
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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …
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Why Are Female Small Business Owners in the United States Less Likely to Apply for Bank Loans than Their Male Counterparts?
Mijid, Naranchimeg - 2015
Women business owners are more discouraged than men to apply for a bank loan because of fear of rejection. Using the …
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Race and Gender in Entrepreneurial Finance
Ewens, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Economic frictions pervade the founding, financing, growing, and exiting of high-growth entrepreneurial firms. This article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender discrimination. I first collect facts from a large empirical...
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Advantages And Disadvantages Of E-Learning In Comparison To Traditional Forms Of Learning
Radović-Marković, Mirjana - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 10 (2010) 2, pp. 289-298
studying. Moreover, further development of virtual education in the future will depend on the advance of contemporary …, which have made great progress in the development rate and in the spreading of virtual faculties’ network. At the end of …
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The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2021
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …
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The effects of COVID-19 on U.S. small businesses: evidence from owners, managers, and employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291877
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Dice thrown from the beginning? : an empirical investigation of determinants of firm level growth expectations
Terjesen, Siri; Szerb, László - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 153-178
This study investigates three competing but complementary perspectives on factors related to entrepreneurial firm growth. We examine individual (entrepreneur) firm and national environment factors associated with the growth expectations of nascent, baby and established firms. Using 25,384 data...
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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...
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Entrepreneurship, institutuions and economic dynamism : lessons from a comparison of the United States and Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2012
The purpose of this research endeavor - in the form of eight articles - to be published in 2013 in a Special Section of Industrial and Corporate Change is to further our understanding of the extent, character and orientation of entrepreneurial activity in today's wealthy countries. This is done...
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