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This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away...
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A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...
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A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...
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We describe and compare the development trajectories of two German regions, South Saxony and Mecklenburg, with a special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation that results in a persistent culture of innovative...
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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asymmetric information. The model shows that, in a labour market where education is used as a signalling device, an imperfect … relationship between productivity in education and in the labour market can lead to an equilibrium where a fraction of the high … is prediction is confirmed empirically: Individuals combining low education with high ability have the highest …
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promote dynamics for new business start-ups. Supportive governmental programs, proper entrepreneurship education and …
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between an entrepreneur’s experience and education and his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using … of experience, age, and education of the firm’s primary founder on the perceived importance of (i.e., use of …
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This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
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estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several …
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