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This paper uses datasets from six surveys to describe entrepreneurship in Argentina. While the quantity of … entrepreneurship in Argentina is high, its quality is low, given the high proportion of informal and necessity entrepreneurs. Income is … found to play a greater role in determining probability of becoming an entrepreneur than parental wealth; entrepreneurship …
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This paper uses the Mexican Social Mobility Survey 2006 to analyze intergenerational social mobility as it relates to entrepreneurial activity. First, the paper analyzes whether entrepreneurs experience greater upward social mobility than self-employed workers or employees. Second, probit models...
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finds that while entrepreneurship status and belonging to the middle class matter in terms of social mobility as measured by …
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entrepreneurship to socioeconomic mobility and to understand the main variables associated with entrepreneurial propensity in selected …
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Productive development policies (PDPs), what used to be called industrial policies, are increasingly recognized as an essential part of the development toolkit, and the need for public-private cooperation is increasingly viewed as a key element for the successful design and implementation of...
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business characteristics, finding that entrepreneurship is rare but more frequent in the upper class than the middle or lower … for promoting higher productivity and welfare than policies encouraging entrepreneurship. …
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Does entrepreneurship contribute to improving social mobility in Ecuador? This paper constructs a pseudo-panel to … analyze the dynamic effect of entrepreneurship on Ecuadorian household incomes during the period 2002-2010. Using three … estimation scenarios, the paper finds a significant level of unconditional mobility and an important effect of entrepreneurship …
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This paper surveys Ecuadorian entrepreneurs to ascertain the differences between middle-class and upper-class entrepreneurs and identify the variables associated with the "success" of a business. The paper also explores the variables that can determine the probability of upward intergenerational...
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Based on a cross-country comparison of dynamic new firms, this paper attempts to characterize Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs and their firms. In general, Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs tend to face more difficult conditions in terms of resources and skills acquisition than...
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