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This note investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
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economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …
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This chapter seeks to explore the institutional effects on the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, for both women …
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interaction process create attractive payoffs for unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. This entrepreneurship type …
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Companies created by women represent a substantial part of entrepreneurship. While men outnumber women in … entrepreneurship rates, the gender gap decreases in the case of social enterprises. This may be explained by the fact that roles and … study the gender gap in social and commercial entrepreneurship, distinguishing between enterprises with less than 42 months …
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We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women …, policies promoting female entrepreneurship can significantly increase female LFP even without explicitly targeting female LFP …
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Recent theories of economic growth have stressed the role of externalities in generating growth. Using data from the Census Bureau that tracks all employers in the whole U.S. private sector economy, we examine the impact of these externalities, as measured by entrepreneurial activity, on...
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mechanism of knowledge spillover strategic entrepreneurship whereby knowledge investments by existing organizations, when … research in entrepreneurship, strategy and economic growth. …
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models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that - when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
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