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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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inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the …Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will …, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social point of view, since they do not internalize the business stealing effect …
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Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
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between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
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embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …
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This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...
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entrepreneurship rates have been identified as two of the main reasons for this situation. In this paper, we present a synthetic but … evaluations performed to assess innovation and entrepreneurship policies implemented in Latin America. This review, together with …
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of entrepreneurship requires a certain level of successful economic development that we capture by the degree of …Persistence of entrepreneurship over longer periods of time could indicate a culture of entrepreneurship among the … local population that may be an important factor for regional development, but does persistence of economic activity require …
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Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …
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