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Determinants of the prevalence of start-ups and high-growth firms
Davidsson, Per; Henrekson, Magnus - 2002
include: missing arenas for entrepreneurship in the care sectors and for household-related services, taxation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437728
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The crisis of the social democratic movement
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - 2022
The financial collapse of 2007, the accompanying refugee crisis, the health crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic have all played their part in the current gloomy political climate. The left lacks a clear message or strategy to improve the lives of ordinary people. The emphasis on austerity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015268841
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The end of hypocrisy and the questioning of democracy
MAVROZACHARAKIS, EMMANOUIL - 2022
The financial crisis of 2007 clearly demonstrated the declining economic and political hegemony of the European social model. Austerity measures, rationalization, and cuts in all areas of society and the state were encouraged by the EU directorates. These measures have weakened social cohesion...
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015238498
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Demografia, Occupazione e Produttività in Europa e Us [quarta parte del progetto "Il presente e il futuro del Pay-Go in Italia, Europa e Us"]
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - 2013
The circular interplay between demography-employment-productivity-PayGo is investigated for Europe and Us. Looking forward to the mid-long run, the paper offers simulations of the burden each effective worker and each active citizen will have to bear to finance via pay-as-you-go public health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015239482
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Does Soft Corruption Make Grease or Sand for Development? Evidence from Road's Special Allocation Fund for Indonesian Districts
Nasrudin, Rus'an - 2015
Under a question whether corruption acts as grease or sand for development, this paper estimates the effect of special allocation fund (SAF) or DAK in road sector to infrastructure provision (road) at the district level in Indonesia. The political fragmentation and its political earmarking,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257032
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Entrepreneurship. How important are institutions and culturally-based prior beliefs?
Ferrante, Francesco; Ruiu, Gabiele - 2014
capital. Other strands of literature stress that the supply of entrepreneurship is a fundamental ingredient of economic growth … opportunity driven entrepreneurship. For what regards institutional variables, three interesting and somehow non conventional … results emerge from the analysis. First, low start-up cost are particular favorable for necessity driven entrepreneurship but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015234181
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What makes the Difference between Unsuccessful and Successful Firms in the German Mechanical Engineering Industry?
Widmaier, Ulrich; Niggemann, Hiltrud; Merz, Joachim - 1994
Against a background of rising costs and increasing competition, it is besoming more and more difficult for the small and medium-sized firms of the German mechanical engineering industry to be economically successful. The thesis that rapidly changing markets, products and production processes...
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Lobbyismus und Mittelstand: Zur Identifikation der Interessenverbände des Mittelstands in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Krickhahn, Thomas - 1993
In diesem Arbeitspapier geht es um die Interessenorganisation des wirtschaftlichen Mittelstands im politischen System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Freien Berufe werden dabei als integraler Bestandteil des wirtschaftlichen Mittelstands angesehen. Ausgehend von der Hypothese, daß die diese...
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AIDS Mortality and its Effect on the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa
Chicoine, Luke - 2012
This paper investigates how HIV/AIDS has impacted the labor market in South Africa, focusing on its effect on wages and employment. This is done by matching individual level data with group specific cumulative AIDS mortality rates. Exploiting the panel nature of the data, I remove individuals...
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