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Entrepreneurship and Market Size:The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ workpossibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000inhabitant-increase in the size of the individual’s province of work reduces the chances ofbeing an entrepreneur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360588
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Does Self-Employment Increase the EconomicWell-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today’s skill intensive economy and their opportunitiescontinue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforceare more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater publicexpenses, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360618
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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance
Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765247
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New Firm Survival and Human Capital
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
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