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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies Through Business Apps Training : A Study of Small Firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements. The business apps training was offered to migrant entrepreneurs … revealed that business apps training was positively associated with entrepreneurs' attitudes toward technology, willingness to …, the business apps training was positively associated with migrant entrepreneurs' integration into Greek society. Given the …

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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved so Little Success in the United States?

Bates, Timothy Mason - 2010

barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs to create small businesses, these programs are designed to alleviate …

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Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries

Grimm, Michael - 2014

Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment creation and the creation of new firms. Because most...

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'Entrepreneurs Out of Necessity' : A Snapshot

Poschke, Markus - 2010

"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across …

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...

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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

De Mel, Suresh - 2015

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...

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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data : An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2010

describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses …

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Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship : India's Informal Sector Firms

Gang, Ira N.; Khangembam, Indira; Sen, Kunal - 2021

access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative … entrepreneurs than men in the informal sector …

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Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

Belitski, Maksim; Günther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2022

"Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …

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