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This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...
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Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development. Especially the continued growth of a …
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capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a … production function model. This paper explains what is meant by entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic … output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for …
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creation of wealth (entrepreneurship) and the reconstitution of wealth (philanthropy). Philanthropy has been part of the … way for future economic growth. This entrepreneurship-philanthropy nexus has not been fully explored by either economists …
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Using a data set of the firms listed on the Neuer Markt in Germany, this paper demonstrates that venture backed firms differ from firms with other financial resources, especially debt. Thus, the results of this study provide evidence for the hypothesis that small and innovative firms are more...
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"Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: The Case of Portugal" by R. Baptista, V. Escarta and P. Madruga, MPI, # 0605 …, in which the authors conclude (among others) that entrepreneurship creates jobs and reduces unemployment. This extension … will be feasible by estimating the total economy´s entrepreneurship reward for Western European countries and relating it …
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Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and 2003) containing over 20,000 observations are used. Other than demographic …
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Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of … literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation and on female entrepreneurship …
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entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition …
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This paper presents an Eclectic Framework explaining (developments in and determinants of) entrepreneurship … the demand for entrepreneurship on the one hand, with those influencing the supply of entrepreneurs on the other hand. It … entrepreneurship can be shifted. In its empirical part the present paper estimates a multinomial logit using survey data from the 15 EU …
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