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"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries
Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi, Oscar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884143
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839291
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Perceptions of entrepreneurs among polish students
Starnawska, Marzena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to present how we can approach and explore the field of entrepreneurship phenomenon in an … management research. We hope to outline how we can approach topic of entrepreneurship using alternative, not mainstream method … entrepreneurship was Baumol (1990) who analyzed perceptions of entrepreneurs from historical perspective. He has distinguished three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258249
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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246703
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822263
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763690
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How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496995
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vaillant, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....
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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884121