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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2020

A randomized controlled trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive short-term impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men and disappear 12 months after the training. The main channel is increased adoption of recommended business...

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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …

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Extreme events, entrepreneurial start-ups, and innovation: theoretical conjectures

Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020

entrepreneurship can cause and resolve extreme events, the immediate and long-run impacts of extreme events on entrepreneurship, and … whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial … equilibrium model to provide several conjectures on the impact of COVID-19 on entrepreneurship and derive policy recommendations …

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Public equity markets and innovation

Bernstein, Shai - 2017

This paper reviews the literature on the role of public equity markets in the innovation ecosystem. The review highlights the importance of public equity markets in funding the research and development activities of young and high growth firms. It also illustrates the dependence of venture...

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Measures of the impact of entrepreneurship on economic development in Romania

Popescu, Nelu-Eugen - In: Expert journal of economics 5 (2017) 3, pp. 81-87

Entrepreneurship has attracted the attention of many scholars in the last years due to its importance in the economy …. Entrepreneurship is considered by many an important factor that could have a positive influence over the economic growth. Despite the … recognition of the role of the entrepreneurship there is no general agreement of how entrepreneurship impacts the economy or a …

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Tax law and the transfer of start-up losses : a European overview and categorization

Bührle, Anna Theresa; Spengel, Christoph - 2019 - This version: September 11th, 2019

Most of the European Member States employ anti-loss trafficking rules. They aim to prevent the acquisition of mere corporate shells with high tax loss carryforwards for the tax asset to be utilized in profitable companies. However, other corporations can unintentionally be affected by the...

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The impact of soft-skills training for entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Ubfal, Diego; Arraiz, Irani; Beuermann, Diether W.; … - 2019

A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005483

Entrepreneurial persistence beyond survival : measurement and determinants

Caliendo, Marco; Göthner, Maximilian; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019

Entrepreneurial persistence is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's continued positive maintenance of entrepreneurial motivation and constantly-renewed active engagement in a new business venture despite counter forces or enticing alternatives. It is thus a crucial factor for entrepreneurs when...

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