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Cultura postmaterialista y variaciones en el espiritu emprendedor

Pinillos Costa, Maria José - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 1, pp. 37-55

-activity rates across Spanish Autonomous Communities. A distinction is made between potential entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurship …, new business formation and Established business, as defined within the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The measure … depending on the stage of business creation considered (conception, birth or residence). -- entrepreneurship ; cultural values …

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Another economic miracle? : the German labor market and the great recession

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Germany’s labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the strong economic position due to recent labor market reforms, the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies, the extension of short-time work, time buffers due to...

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The coupling between entrepreneurship and public policy : tight in developed countries but loose in development countries

Schøtt, Thomas; Wickstrøm Jensen, Kent - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 195-214

In this paper we compare the coupling between entrepreneurship policy and entrepreneurship activity in developed and …) are more beneficial on paper than on actual activity. Following this perspective, the coupling between entrepreneurship … policy and entrepreneurship activity is hypothesized to be lower for developing countries than for developed countries. Using …

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Economic development as a matter of political geography

Streb, Jorge M.; Druck, Pablo F. - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 1, pp. 5-20

Can limited government be a driving force of economic development? This idea goes back to Montesquieu, and is closely related to recent research in institutional economics. Measuring limited government with the Henisz political constraints index, and economic development with income per capita,...

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Does activity mix and funding strategy vary across ownership? : evidence from Indian banks

Ghosh, Saibal - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-33

Using data on Indian banks during 1996-2007, the paper examines the impact of bank activity and short-term funding for bank returns and risks. The findings indicate that larger, fast growing financial firms tend to have higher fee income shares. In addition, banks with greater reliance on fee...

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Necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship : the mediating effect of culture

Liñán, Francisco; Fernández-Serrano, José; Romero, … - In: Revista de economía mundial : REM ; revista de la … 33 (2013), pp. 21-47

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Missing women in the United Kingdom

Adamou, Adamos; Drakos, Christina; Iyer, Sriya - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971–2006 General Household Survey. We examine sex-selection in the UK among immigrant families and the gender composition of previous births, conditional on socio-economic...

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Dice thrown from the beginning? : an empirical investigation of determinants of firm level growth expectations

Terjesen, Siri; Szerb, Lászlo - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 153-178

nascent, baby and established firms. Using 25,384 data points from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)'s survey of … young firms are mainly found in developed countries. -- entrepreneurship ; firm growth expectations ; develop vs. developing …

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A meta-frontier approach for comparing bank efficiency differences between Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand

Liu, Yi-cheng; Chen, Ying-hsiu - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 131-150

The purpose of this paper is to employ the Meta-Frontier Cost Function to compare the bank efficiencies in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand during the period of 2002-2009. We propose two new variables: income on loans and non-performing loans, to identify whether the banks are both cost and...

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Deutsche Industrie trotzt dem Aufstieg der Schwellenländer

Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 10, pp. 11-15

Zwischen 2000 und 2009 ist China zur zweitgrößten Industrienation aufgestiegen und auch die Industrien anderer Schwellenländer sowie vieler osteuropäischer Länder sind sehr dynamisch gewachsen. Dennoch konnte Deutschland seinen Anteil an der globalen Industrieproduktion weitgehend...

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