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Labor Markets, Inequality and Poverty in Georgia
Yemtsov, Ruslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical account of main channels through which the growth in transition period has affected labor market and living standards in Georgia. It is based on both the official aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822874
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Entrepreneurship
Lazear, Edward P. - 2003
most important determinant of entrepreneurship is having background in a large number of different roles. Further, income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262718
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Entrepreneurship
Lazear, Edward P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
most important determinant of entrepreneurship is having background in a large number of different roles. Further, income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703669
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The Relationship Conflict between Venture Capital and Entrepreneur
Alqatawni, Tahsen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The dilemmas that may encounter entrepreneurship result of an expected conflict between VCs and entrepreneur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260079
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Entering and Leaving Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis for 12 Developing Countries
Cho, Yoon Y.; Robalino, David A.; Romero, Jose M. - 2015
This paper examines the determinants of labor market transitions into and out of self-employment (own-account work and employer), using panel data from 12 developing countries in multiple regions. Despite cross-country heterogeneity, a few consistent patterns emerge. Entering the labor market...
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329195
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A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data
Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014
significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333356
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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Poschke, Markus - 2019
Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - 1999
-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …
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