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A Practical Method to Estimate Entrepreneurship's Reward

Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

to estimate entrepreneurship´s reward. As an example, a regression, based on the estimation of entrepreneurship´s reward …

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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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The Contribution of Business Ownership in Bringing Down Unemployment in Japan

Stel, Andre van; Baljeu, Lendert; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Andre van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

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 Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Eco-nomic Performance in OECD Countries

Carree, Martin; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

This note 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. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...

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THE ROLE OF DISSATISFACTION AND PER CAPITA INCOME IN EXPLAINING SELF-EMPLOYMENT ACROSS 15 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Wennekers, Sander; Stel, Andre van; Noorderhaven, Niels; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 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...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; Stel, Andre van; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

This study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship across countries. Explanatory variables are derived from … three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship, the literature on female … labor force participation, and that on female entrepreneurship. To test the hypotheses use is made of Global …

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Entrepreneurship Capital: Determinants and Impact

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

The literature focusing on the geography of entrepreneurship has developed some-thing of a schizophrenic approach. On … account for inter-spatial variations in entrepreneurship. On the other hand is a literature that has ex-amined the impact of … entrepreneurship on the economic performance of that region. While the emergence of a statistical link between economic performance and …

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Business dynamics and employment growth: a cross-country analysis

Stel, Andre van; Diephuis, Bart - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...

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Why Butterflies Don’t Leave. Locational behaviour of entrepreneurial firms

Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development. Especially the continued growth of a …

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