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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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Knowledge spillovers and future jobs
Audretsch, David B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Globalization brings both good and bad job news. The bad news is that jobs will be outsourced from high-cost developed countries into lower-cost locations as soon as the associated economic activity becomes mechanized and predictable. The good news is that globalization creates opportunities...
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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 …
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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,...
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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...
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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. …
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Insolvenzordnung: Möglichkeit des Neustarts erleichtert Unternehmensgründungen
Fossen, Frank M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 5, pp. 11-13
Seit 1999 die Insolvenzordnung eingeführt wurde, können sich Privatpersonen, die sich überschuldet haben, in einem Insolvenzverfahren entschulden. Dafür muss der private Schuldner zunächst die sechsjährige Wohlverhaltensphase durchlaufen, während derer sein Einkommen oberhalb einer...
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Court-ship, kinship and business: A study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 7, pp. 1-21
In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...
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