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Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
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of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing the gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …
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We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth. First, we illustrate that entrepreneurship affects the … entrepreneurship exerts significant growth stimuli. We then evaluate this prediction empirically applying 3SLS estimations based on the … approach proposed by Barro (1991, 2000, 2003). Using data of 188 countries between 1980-2010, we show that entrepreneurship has …
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Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This paper explores the history of … entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize … confronting the prize committee of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Entrepreneurship has developed in many sub …
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-employment. -- entrepreneurial choice ; occupation-specific determinants of entrepreneurship ; risk preferences ; taste for variety …
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also for entrepreneurship, innovation, and thus, economic growth. We analyze the level and the determinants of self … entrepreneur. Investigating the determinants of entrepreneurship within the creative class as compared to non-creative professions … reveals only some few differences. -- entrepreneurship ; new business formation ; creativity ; creative class …
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sector. However, these results are sensitive to the level of development. -- Entrepreneurship ; property rights ; access to …
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Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
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