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"Romanticizing penniless entrepreneurs?" : the relationship between start-ups and human wellbeing across countries
Naudé, Wim; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi M., Oscar - 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/10009786921
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Human capital in social and commercial entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Širokova, Galina V.; … - In: Journal of business venturing 31 (2016) 4, pp. 449-467
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530433
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A framework for investigating new firm entry : the (limited) overlap between informal-formal and necessity-opportunity entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Guerrero, Maribel; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - In: Journal of business venturing 39 (2024) 4, pp. 1-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015065160
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Return migration and self-employment : evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Mahé, Clotilde; Naudé, Wim - 2018
their origin countries than non-migrants. This has led to the belief that return migration stimulates entrepreneurship in … findings cast doubt on the common narrative of return migration stimulating entrepreneurship and therefore economic development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798170
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Happy moves? : assessing the link between life satisfaction and emigration intentions
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, policymakers across the world should be interested in attracting and retaining happy and life-satisfied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515268
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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : evidence from 17 transition market economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2013
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227718
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Informal employment in transition countries : empirical evidence and research challenges
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2014
Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and the determinants of informal employment. In the first part of the paper we demonstrate that its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457410
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Minding the happiness gap : political institutions and perceived quality of life in transition
Nikolova, Milena - 2015
Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies have examined the causes of the increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387030
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Las periferias del sur ante la Unión Económica y Monetaria
Curbelo, José Luis; Alburquerque, Francisco - In: Revista de Estudios Regionales 02 (1992), pp. 115-138
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Algunas reflexiones sobre el desarrollo rural y los patrones de acumulación
Mosca, Joao; Real, Eduardo Ramos - In: Revista de Estudios Regionales 01 (1994), pp. 81-108
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