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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512074
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197083
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Immigration and entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506325
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Empirical essays on household decisions: labor supply, education and savings
Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2020
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Effects of fracking on entrepreneurial activity in the U.S.
Unel, Bulent - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211982
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A Comparison of the Handling of the Financial Crisis in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia
Brown, Elizabeth F. - 2011
The United States has over 115 different state and federal government agencies regulating financial services, which encompasses banking, securities and insurance firms and products. Various commentators have noted that at least part of the blame for the financial crisis of 2007-2009 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123818
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What Conflict Minerals Rules Tell Us about the Legal Transplantation of Corporate Social Responsibility Standards without the State : From the United Nations to the United States t...
Tsai, Chang-hsien - 2018
To resolve global political and scholarly concerns over conflict minerals (“CM”) produced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring regions, two kinds of CM-related disclosure rules (or “CM rules”) come into play in regulating their use: government-mandated laws such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933008
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Five Steps to Grow the Cuban Economy : What the US and Cuba Can Do in Obama's Final Year
Klein, Michael W. - 2016
The Cuban government has a dominant role to play in determining the future landscape of the country's financial markets. This is a multifaceted issue. Finance operates in combination with a constellation of other factors, including sound laws, institutions that respect property rights, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996493
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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2009
mit der Kompetenzdimension verbunden zu sein scheint. -- entrepreneurship ; "Jack-of-all-Trades" ; competence ; desire …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874333