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Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas; Bilkic, Natasa - 2013

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Job creation and the intra-distribution dynamics of the firm size distribution

Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2012

Based on a three equations model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth we estimate firm-specific transition probabilities between size classes of the firm size distribution. This allows to analyze counterfactual scenarios that assess the impact of changes in exogenous variables on the...

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University spinoffs and the “performance premium”

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013

social costs of entrepreneurship are likely to be higher for academic entrepreneurs and empirically investigates the … performance premium varies across types of academic entrepreneurs and founders’ academic disciplines. -- Academic Entrepreneurship …

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Male vs. female business owners : are there differences in investment behavior?

Pelger, Ines - 2012 - first draft

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The role of training in fostering cluster-based micro and small enterprises development

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2012

enhancement of managerial capacity. -- managerial capacity ; entrepreneurship ; innovation ; micro and small enterprises …

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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?

McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...

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Entrepreneurship, economic conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...

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Risk tolerance and entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K.; Panos, Georgios A. - 2013

. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we find that common stock investors are around 50 percent more likely to …

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La influencia del proceso de migración en la percepción del riesgo de crear una empresa

Bolívar Cruz, Alicia; Hormiga, Esther - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 1, pp. 69-85

business. In order to empirically validate the hypotheses formulated, this research uses data from the Global Entrepreneurship … perceive the creation of a company as a hazardous situation. These data prompt us to reflect on explanations related to the … and policies to foster entrepreneurship in this group. -- risk perception ; migration process ; business creation …

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