Similar Search Results

What drives the dynamics of employment growth in firms? Evidence from East Africa

Atwine, Blessing; Okumu, Ibrahim Mike; Nnyanzi, John Bosco - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 12 (2023) 1, pp. 1-25

This study examines the firm level drivers of employment growth in East Africa in which they are categorized as firm specific, entrepreneur specific and business environment characteristics. Using a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise survey dataset and pooled Ordinary Least Squares estimation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519620

Innovation in the European Value Chain: The Case of the Romanian Automotive Industry

Negrea, Alina Petronela; Cojanu, Valentin - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 1, pp. 126-146

Entrepreneurs’ and regional stakeholder’s capacity to turn knowledge, skills and competencies into sustainable competitive advantage is crucial to a region' economic performance. The article attempts to reveal their synergy by gathering evidence in the particular context of the Romanian...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017195

Labor market opportunities for women in the digital age

Krieger-Boden, Christiane; Sorgner, Alina - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-28, pp. 1-8

labor markets, financial markets, and entrepreneurship. Currently, digitalization seems to favor female labor force, since …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843355

Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process: From microcredit to microfinance

Ashta, Arvind; Couchoro, Mawuli; Musa, Abu Saleh - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

, through its wide range of innovatively distributed products, can be a key factor to foster entrepreneurship. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540250

Resources, experience, and perseverance in entrepreneurs' perceived likelihood of success in an emerging economy

In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-24

from a Vietnamese nationwide entrepreneurship survey. From established relationships, such factors as preparedness …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540290

Examining the differences between the motivations of traditional and entrepreneurial scientists

Huszár, Sándor; Prónay, Szabolcs; Buzás, Norbert - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 5 (2016) 25, pp. 1-22

increasing number of scholars are focusing on researchers' motivation in academic entrepreneurship, there is still a lack of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540297

Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship

Block, Jörn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573647

What can be expected from productive inclusion programs?

Rigolini, Jamele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Productive inclusion programs provide an integrated package of services, such as grants and training, to promote self-employment and wage employment among the poor. They show promising long-term impacts, and are often proposed as a way to graduate the poor out of social assistance. Nevertheless,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573691

The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586008

Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: Evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586021