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Latent and actual entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: some recent developments

Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

and actual entrepreneurship. Other than demographic variables such as gender, age and education, the set of covariates …

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Post-Materialism Influencing Total Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations

Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Roy - 2005

The study of predictors of entrepreneurial activity at the country level has been dominated by economic influences. However, the relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other forces such as institutional and/or cultural factors are at play....

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownershiop across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across economically developed nations have attracted the attentiion of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural rather than economic influences are assumed to play a decisive role. This paper deals with the influence of cutlural...

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Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development. This would imply a different scope for entrepreneurship policy across …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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The effect of entrepreneurial activity on national economic growth

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

incorporating the Growth Competitiveness Index... …

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment: is Portugal an Outlier?

Baptista, Rui; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The present paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, as measured by the variation in business … outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average. Although the nature … of entrepreneurship may be different in the Portuguese case, due to a high proportion of "micro-businesses" created for …

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The effect of entrepreneurship on national economic growth: an analysis using the GEM database

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The increased importance of knowledge as a source of competitiveness for modern economies suggests that the … this test we aim to investigate to what extent the role of entrepreneurship has changed in the last decades of the 20th …

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The role of Dissatisfaction and Per Capita Income in Explaining Self-Employment across 15 European Countries

Wennekers, Sander; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Noorderhaven, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

This paper deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978-2000, within a framework of occupational choice, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and of per capita income. Using two different...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship across 29 countries

Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The present study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship from a country perspective. Explanatory variables … are derived from three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship in general …, on female labor force participation, and on female entrepreneurship. To test hypotheses we make use of Global …

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