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From nascent to actual entrepreneurship: the effect of entry barriers
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
This exploratory study focuses on the conversion from nascent to actual entrepreneurship and the role of entry barriers … in this process. Using data for a sample of countries partici-pating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 … and 2004, we estimate a two-equation model explaining the nascent entrepreneurship rate and the young business entre-preneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864984
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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownershiop across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across economically developed nations have attracted the attentiion of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural rather than economic influences are assumed to play a decisive role. This paper deals with the influence of cutlural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865013
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Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development. This would imply a different scope for entrepreneurship policy across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865014
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The role of Dissatisfaction and Per Capita Income in Explaining Self-Employment across 15 European Countries
Wennekers, Sander; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Noorderhaven, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
This paper deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978-2000, within a framework of occupational choice, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and of per capita income. Using two different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865255