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Shrivastava, Mili - 2010

Spinoffs frms are an important source of industry dynamics and innovation. While an emerging body of literature identifies strategic disagreements and ideas as determinants of spinoffs, neither of them can completely explain the spinoff process. Mere disagreements or brilliant flashes of ideas...

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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries: A microeconomic perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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Credit constraints and productive entrepreneurship in Africa

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Leonce - 2011

Limited access of entrepreneurs to credit constrains the creation and growth of private firms. In Africa, access to … credit is particularly limited for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to unclear property rights and the lack of assets … entrepreneurs with productive technologies, while firm growth depends on acquired capital. The shortage of collateral creates a …

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Self-employment, wage employment and informality in a developing economy

Bennett, John; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2012

We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In...

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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic background of these individuals, their education,...

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The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of primary school. We focus on pupils' development...

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Employer attitudes, the marginal employer and the ethnic wage gap

Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011

Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic...

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Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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Detecting wage under-reporting using a double hurdle model

Elek, Peter; Kollo, Janos; Reizer, Balázs; Szabó, … - 2011

We estimate a double hurdle (DH) model of the Hungarian wage distribution assuming censoring at the minimum wage and wage under-reporting (i.e. compensation consisting of the minimum wage, subject to taxation, and an unreported cash supplement). We estimate the probability of under-reporting for...

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