Ende Januar 1996 fand in Paris ein Treffen mehrerer Delegationen osteuropäischer Staaten statt. Im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion stand das Problem der Finanzierung neugegründeter Privatunternehmen. Die einzelnen Teilnehmer stellten ihre Lösungen vor und diskutierten mit Wirtschaftsexperten...

This compendium contains 20 case studies of public programmes in European countries that are successfully supporting business creation by people from disadvantaged and under-represented groups in entrepreneurship. The populations targeted by these programmes include youth, women, seniors, the...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Estern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding th sources of enterpreneurship. A relativ demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27000 adults...