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Non-Farm Enterprises in Rural Africa : New Empirical Evidence

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014

operating a non-farm enterprise. Households are also pulled into entrepreneurship to exploit opportunities. Access to credit and …

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Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries

Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David J. - 2013

The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm...

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Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? This paper uses data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. The authors use a rich set of...

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Entrepreneurship in Post-Conflict Transition : The Role of Informality and Access to Finance

Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Klapper, Leora; Panos, Georgios A. - 2012

The authors examine the factors affecting the transition to self-employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey panel household survey for the years 2001-2004. In the beginning of the sample, the country changed its legal framework, with the primary...

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2014

particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the concept of "entrepreneurship" is critically discussed …

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance : Microeconomic Evidence from Advanced and Developing Countries

Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

The aim of this study is to provide a microeconomic investigation of the concept of entrepreneurship; in particular, it … discusses the following issues: 1) the alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing "creative destruction … (of the new firm); and 4) the possible scope for an economic policy aimed at maximizing the impact of entrepreneurship on …

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Earnings Premiums and Penalties for Self-Employment and Informal Employees around the World

Gindling, Thomas; Mossaad, Nadwa; Newhouse, David Locke - 2016

This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are divided into four categories: non-professional own-account workers, employers and own-account professionals, informal wage employees, and formal wage employees. Approximately half...

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Do Workers in Chile Choose Informal Employment? A Dynamic Analysis of Sector Choice

Packard, Truman - 2012

The degree to which a labor market is segmented and jobs in the formal sector of the economy are rationed is critical to the analysis of coverage of social insurance and pensions. Using unique panel data spanning the 1998-99 contraction in Chile, the author finds little evidence that...

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Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates : Evidence from a Randomized Trial In Tunisia

Premand, Patrick; Brodmann, Stefanie; Almeida, Rita - 2013

In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the … entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in … standard curriculum. This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor …

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Self-Employment in the Developing World

Gindling, Thomas; Newhouse, David Locke - 2013

This paper analyzes heterogeneity among the self-employed in 74 developing countries, representing two-thirds of the population of the developing world. After profiling how worker characteristics vary by employment status, it classifies self-employed workers outside agriculture as "successful"...

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