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Property Rights and Economic Growth
Rosenberg, Nathan - Ratioinstitutet - 2003
My main purpose is to connect the issue of property rights to the set of questions concerning economic growth and the long-term determinants of the improvements in material well-being. To anticipate what will be my main conclusion, it is that property rights and economic growth are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419171
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …
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Endogenous growth through knowledge spillovers in entrepreneurship: An empirical test
Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl; Hellerstedt, Karin - Ratioinstitutet - 2011
analysis: First, do industries with a greater need for new technology-based entrepreneurship grow disproportionately faster …
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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence
Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021842
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Does Quality Make a Difference?: Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021843
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The Skill Balancing Act: Determinants of and Returns to Balanced Skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131067
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Emergence of Firms: A Sociogeographic Demand Side Perspective
Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
geography and population ecology to the entrepreneurship literature as to present a theoretical framework that captures both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642551
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Succession in Private Firms as an Entrepreneurial Process – A Review and Suggestions of New Research avenues
Wennberg, Karl; Nordqvist, Mattias; Bau, Massimo; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2010
to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. We provide a comprehensive literature review of succession … literatures on entrepreneurship, family firms, and governance in private firms. The paper explores theoretical, conceptual, and … methodological ways of integrating these findings into the research on entrepreneurship and family business. …
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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits-the Big Five-on an individual's decision to become self- employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we also...
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