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female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce …. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who …
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Because entrepreneurial activity can stimulate job creation and long-term economic growth, promoting entrepreneurship …
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comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an … decades later were major historical shocks to the economy in general, and to entrepreneurship specifically. Our comparative … analysis of East and West Germany assesses how these shocks affected the level of entrepreneurship at the regional level …
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entrepreneurs in a socialist economy was marginal. Entrepreneurial activities were restricted mainly to handicrafts, retailing and … industries with a long regional tradition and where entrepreneurship played an important role in pre-socialist times had higher …
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This study investigates the effects of human capital, social capital and their interaction on the performance of 1,398 Vietnamese new-born firms. Operating profit is used as the measure of success. Human capital is captured by individual-level professional education, start-up experience, and...
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Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, this paper studies the association between local religious diversity and individual entrepreneurial behavior in 29 transition countries. We find that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business....
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shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the correlation between female entrepreneurship and happiness within the … female entrepreneurship and five control variables measuring the determinants of happiness. The method used for analysis is …, making it suitable for studying the heterogeneous effects of female entrepreneurship on happiness across happiness quantiles …
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Online marketplace participation is a strategy for reducing barriers for female entrepreneurs who qualify as persons … entrepreneurs who participate in the online marketplace generate better earnings than those who do not, although heterogeneities by … families' financial needs. Despite the advantages, online marketplace participation among female PWD entrepreneurs is still low …
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, focussing specifically on poor performance enterprises, a prevalent but disregarded type of entrepreneurship. Using German panel …
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