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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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We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …
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The literature focusing on the geography of entrepreneurship has developed something of a schizophrenic approach. On … account for inter-spatial variations in entrepreneurship. On the other hand is a literature that has examined the impact of … entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …
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We are currently investigating genetic influences on self-employment in an international research consortium using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). By meta-analysing results from numerous independent samples we address identification issues arising from multiple testing. To our knowledge,...
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The terms innovation and entrepreneurship are commonly used - but not always with the same understanding. There is an … recent models linking innovation and entrepreneurship are discussed and presented. Finally, a comprehensive framework for …
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Notwithstanding the emergence of FinTech startups in the financial services industry, most of these companies face significant difficulties in breaking even and surviving. This study examines the main managerial, institutional, and financial drivers of FinTech profitability and the time it takes...
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Despite the growing attention to social entrepreneurship as a scholarly field of research, it is still in a stage of … the evolution of social entrepreneurship as a field of scientific inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to gauge the … current state of empirical research in the field by reviewing 31 empirical research studies on social entrepreneurship …
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entrepreneurship skills and competencies are different from those that are imparted at present and therefore there is a need to revise …
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The authors discuss how and entrepreneur should take up the selection decisions with regard to starting a new business. The important questions are selection of industry, market segment, right product and services and issues with regard to market forces. The authors discuss the current status of...
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We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their start-up satisfaction. Our results identify a group of nascent entrepreneurs that 'cannot get satisfaction' with their start-up because they did not choose to become...
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