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Credit Constraints and ProductiveEntrepreneurship in Africa

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Leonce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

entrepreneurship andprivate sector employment in Africa.... …

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Selbständige sind anders : Persönlichkeit beeinflusst unternehmerisches Handeln

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 78 (2011) 11, pp. 2-8

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Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019

entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the …

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Entrepreneurship Over the Business Cycle in the United States : A Decomposition

Fossen, Frank M. - 2019

entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

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Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2018

A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …

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Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa : Evidence from Eswatini

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019

This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first shows that higher initial capital is associated with better sales performance for...

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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016

This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both genders with higher start-up capital record better...

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Fossen, Frank M. - 2007

Entrepreneurial activity is often regarded as an engine for economic growth and job creation. Through tax policy, governments possess a potential lever to influence the decisions of economic agents to start and close small businesses. In Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced...

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Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa : An Application to Ethiopia

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2013

entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …

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