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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282246
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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The dynamics of entrepreneurship: hysteresis, business cycles and government policy
Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - 2009
US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276150
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The dynamics of entrepreneurship : hysteresis, business cycles and government policy
Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - 2009
US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the … article discusses implications of the findings for the design of entrepreneurship policies. -- Hysteresis ; unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830249
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Medium term effects of culture, transactions and institutions on opportunity entrepreneurship
Petrakēs, Panagiōtēs E.; Kostis, Pantelis C. - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 3 (2014), pp. 1-22
Cultural evolution is a long-term endogenous process which is revealed in society's cultural traits and it is embodied in institutional characteristics (property rights protection, rule of law, etc.) and transaction characteristics (risk levels, time required for start-ups, corruption levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506574
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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271743
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197083
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506325
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Creative unemployment
Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2010
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313336
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New Firm Survival and Human Capital
Ács, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271742