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Entrepreneurship is generally regarded as a force of change, innovation, and development in modern economies …. Entrepreneurs bring new and better products to markets, restore allocative efficiency through arbitrage and reinvest their profits … without creating incentives for destructive entrepreneurship. -- destructive entrepreneurship ; allocation of talent …
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distinguishing between SEWEs and SEWNEs in drawing valid conclusions concerning any link between entrepreneurship and economic …
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Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of MBAs, we account for 82 percent of the gap by incorporating noncognitive skills (e.g., confidence and assertiveness) and preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those...
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This paper draws on occupational choice theory to explain that observed differences in shares of entrepreneurs as self … consistent with the hypothesis that environments of high trust allow entrepreneurs, as employers, to implement more decentralized … equilibrium with fewer firms under the direction of high-skilled entrepreneurs. The paper also highlights the importance of …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants …
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entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. -- Social capital ; entrepreneurship ; selection ; savings …The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non …
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Discrimination of born and unborn females is a well documented phenomenon in countries such as India, China, Taiwan or Korea. Empirical studies provide support for both an additive and a substitutive relationship between prenatal and postnatal discriminatory practices against females. We...
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A significant number of women experience physical or sexual violence throughout their lives, with a considerable … portion of such incidents occurring in public spaces. Harmful social norms emphasizing men's power over women have been … against women during Holi. We analyze how perpetrators' and victims' gender norms drive violence against women. First, we find …
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