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Age is an important factor in entrepreneurship. The paths into entrepreneurship at a later age may be varied. Self … urban areas, although rural areas have strong traditions of entrepreneurship. Seniors with prior experience are more likely … to start a business in urban areas: habitual entrepreneurship is more frequent in urban areas, at least in later life …
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inhabitants are taken into account, some regions have persistently higher entrepreneurship rates than others. Proposed … effects. Regional differences in entrepreneurship have also been linked to the availability of role models (Fornahl 2003 …; Sternberg 2009; Malecki 2009). It can be argued that in regions with high rates of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial role models …
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Background and motivation: The paper investigates what effects the colocation of growing and declining sectors has on the hiring behaviour of growing sectors in terms of labour pooling and employment growth. Given the importance of geographical proximity in labour matches, the agglomeration...
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In this paper I investigate the causal relationship between labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility, two of the most important features of advanced labor markets in recent decades. The former relates to the disappearance of middle-wage routine jobs and the rise of both high- and...
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Objectives: This paper aims to examine the transition process from the development and state of entrepreneurship in 15 … transition, entrepreneurship. While it is surely the case that certain transition tasks, like privatizing state-owned enterprises … Entrepreneurship. Findings: Investigating the former transition countries, we can conclude that the overall level of entrepreneurship …
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There are interesting differences in self-employment rates among countries and also among regions within the same country. There is a multiplicity of reasons to explain the evolution of self-employment and the differences among countries and/or regions. However, unemployment and the distribution...
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There is an extensive literature examining the determinants of self-employment. These studies have mainly failed to account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self-employment by exploiting variation in historical...
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-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a … regional entrepreneurship culture. Such an entrepreneurial culture could maybe even outwear considerable 'jumps' in the … regional entrepreneurship in three different scenarios with different degrees of changes of the economic conditions. The basic …
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