Using firm-level data from Kenyan manufacturing firms, we evaluate the hotly debated and popular view that small firms create the most jobs and are the primary source of employment growth. Using the methods of ordinary least squares and Feasible generalized least squares, findings reveal that...

This paper describes the very different role played by female elites in contemporary developing countries, as compared to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more important in business and politics in today's developing...

This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...

This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...

Through its object of activity, an economic organization has the role to efficiently use the means of production that it possesses in terms of the full utilization of the production capacities, of a high quality of the products and of obtaining profit.Companies need their human, material,...

In June 2016, the European Commission issued a new EU Blue Card proposal. This proposal is meant to make the EU more attractive for highly qualified workers from third countries. While strengthening the knowledge economy of the EU, the potential impacts of the new Blue Card proposal on...