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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries

Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure...

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when compared to other …

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The effect of business regulations on nascent and actual entrepreneurship

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Storey, David; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper investigates the effect of business regulations on various measures of entrepreneurship. Using data for a … sample of countries participation in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2002 and 2005, we estimate a two …-equation model explaining the nascent and the actual entrepreneurship rate, while taking into account the interrelationship between …

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Entrepreneurial engagement levels in the European Union

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

A multinomial logit model and survey data from the 25 EU member states and the US are used to establish the effect of demographic and other variables on various entrepreneurial engagement levels. These engagement levels range from "never thought about starting a business" to "thinking about it",...

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Latent and actual entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: some recent developments

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

and actual entrepreneurship. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education, the set of covariates …

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Post-Materialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations

Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Roy - 2005

The study of predictors of entrepreneurial activity at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. However, the relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other forces such as institutional and/or cultural factors are at play....

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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...

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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The effect of entrepreneurial activity on national economic growth

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

Entrepreneurial activity is generally assumed to be an important aspect of the organization of industries most conducive to innovative activity and unrestrained competition. This paper investigates whether total entrepreneurial activity influences GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. We test...

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment: is Portugal an Outlier?

Baptista, Rui; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The present paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, as measured by the variation in business … outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average. Although the nature … of entrepreneurship may be different in the Portuguese case, due to a high proportion of "micro-businesses" created for …

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