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Job growth in early transition : comparing two paths

Jurajda, Štěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2002

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...

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Entrepreneurship, institutions and skills in low-income countries

Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - 2017

conducive business regulations amplify the positive impact on firm creation of better education and reduced skill mismatches. To … escape a low-productivity trap, policymakers should thus create a pro-business framework and a well-functioning education …

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Does education enhance entrepreneurship?

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021

Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …

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Taking the leap : the determinants of entrepreneurs hiring their first employee

Fairlie, Robert W.; Miranda, Javier - 2016

hire their first employee by the first, second and seventh years after startup. The education level of the owner, however …

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Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya

McKenzie, David J.; Puerto, Susana - 2017

A common concern with efforts to directly help some small businesses to grow is that their growth comes at the expense of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which randomizes business training at the market level, and then...

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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs...

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Are young and small firms hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs? : Evidence from German micro data

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Job creation by firms in Denmark

Ibsen, Rikke; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C. - 2011

age ; firm size ; education ; employer-employee data …

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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013

Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...

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Local agglomeration, entrepreneurship and the Great Recession : evidence from Italian industrial districts

Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2014

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...

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