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Using a monthly panel dataset of individuals' debt composition including mortgage and nonmortgage consumer credit, we show that house price changes can explain a significant fraction of personal debt composition dynamics. We exploit the variation in local house price growth as shocks to...
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entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than …
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personality traits of owners/managers - risk attitudes, locus of control, and innovativeness - and firm-level decisions. We extend …, including product innovation, worker training, and adoption of workplace safety measures that are potentially conducive to …
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Is the lack of "managerial capital", alongside human and financial capital, a constraint on the growth of firms in developing countries? The evidence on this is still mixed, especially among small and medium enterprises. This paper uses a panel of Vietnamese small and medium enterprises to...
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-commerce development across counties in the People's Republic of China and assess its impact on entrepreneurship in both rural and urban … change of household entrepreneurship. It promotes the entrepreneurship in the manufacturing and wholesale sectors, but … reduces the entrepreneurship in the retail, hotel, and catering sectors. In addition, we show that e-commerce prosperity fuels …
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innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make it costly for firms to arbitrarily discharge employees …. This enables firms to commit to not punish short-run failures of employees. Because innovation is inherently risky and …, but path-breaking, projects thereby fostering firm-level innovation. I provide empirical evidence supporting this thesis …
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Companies created by women represent a substantial part of entrepreneurship. While men outnumber women in … entrepreneurship rates, the gender gap decreases in the case of social enterprises. This may be explained by the fact that roles and … study the gender gap in social and commercial entrepreneurship, distinguishing between enterprises with less than 42 months …
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This paper responds to the need for more data on the topical issue of older entrepreneurship by comparing Third Age (50 … entrepreneurship is not a marginal issue, even though the start-up rate in the Third Age population was found to be slightly less than … leading to entrepreneurship at an older age, which were found to clearly dominate over "push" motives in this context. …
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entrepreneurship and strategic management, based on an aggregation of the extant literature in these two fields. The article structures …
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