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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital

Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

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International Trade and Local Outsourcing

Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei; Xu, Xinpeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

standard Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model we show that international trade promotes fragmentation, entrepreneurship and …

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Spatial Disparities: Divisions and Changes of Self-employment and Firms

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

entrepreneurship and asks for its overlapping with categories of self-employment and of innovation. Although these terms cover only … partially the same meanings, political discourse often equals the slogan to foster entrepreneurship and innovation with an … firms without further employees. An equation of entrepreneurship with innovation activities and in-creasing self …

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Collective Entrepreneurship. Networking as a strategy for business development

Friedrichs, Yvonne von - In: MERCATI E COMPETITIVITÀ 2010/1 (2010) 1, pp. 83-98

The paper addresses the emerging practice of collective entrepreneurship and demonstrate a model of network marketing … problem is considered from the entrepreneurship, marketing and networking perspectives. The result is based on a case study of … in a visualisation of a powerful web of connections between actors showing the impact of collective entrepreneurship to …

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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Institutions and Generational Change

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …

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Questionario e guida pratica per la misurazione del capitale sociale

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Questo paper presenta un questionario e una guida pratica per la misurazione del capitale sociale. Il lavoro vuole costituire un vero e proprio manuale rivolto a ricercatori, studenti e docenti, consulenti di impresa e operatori del terzo settore che per qualsiasi ragione, dalla redazione della...

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The impact of insolvency laws on venture capital

Bhatia, Jai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The venture capital (VC) industry supports innovation in an economy, and has seen much success over the last few years. However, with the inherent risk in any start-up business, the venture capitalist is bound to see some failures. This paper explores the effects of corporate and personal...

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Moonlighting Entrepreneurs

Wilson, Linus - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 1896-1903

When ability complements effort, we would expect effort to increase with variables that proxy for ability. For example, we show that the hours worked by entrepreneurs should increase in experience, a proxy for ability. Yet, even if education is positively correlated with entrepreneurial ability,...

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The relationship between trust and networks. An exploratory empirical analysis

Sabatini, Fabio - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 2, pp. 661-672

Which kind of network fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical investigation into the causal relationships connecting four types of social networks (i.e. bonding, bridging, linking, and corporate), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based...

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