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Entrepreneurship and welfare
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2009
We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the percapita consumption expenditure. The …
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The geography and determinants of entrepreneurship
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2008
Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276825
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The Geography and Determinants of Entrepreneurship
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Entrepreneurship literature (Parker 2004) has rarely considered spatial location as a micro-determinant of occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090489
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The Social Value of Productive Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J.; Boardman, Mary C.; McNeely, Connie L. - 2011
As a critical contribution to the social entrepreneurship literature, this paper first engages the concept of social … entrepreneurship. Situating it within the distinctive context of charity and philanthropy, it provides structure and clarity. Next, it … issues relative to productive and social entrepreneurship. Recognized as highly successful innovative ventures, these two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188176
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The old-boy network and the quality of entrepreneurs
Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2010
We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs' types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974212
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Entrepreneurs and Welfare in Economies with Employers and Own Account Self-Employed
Salas-Fumás, Vicente; Sanchez-Asin, J. Javier - 2009
In this paper we extend models of market equilibrium from binary occupational choices of people with different entrepreneurial ability, to the realistic case that entrepreneurs can decide whether they hire workers and become employers or whether they become own account self-employed. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210621
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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem
Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014
methodology that combines institutions and human agency into an interdependent system, applying the configuration theory. We argue …
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Who works for whom? : worker sorting in a model of entrepreneurship with heterogeneous labor markets
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Hyatt, Henry R.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2016
entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to work, become entrepreneurs, or work in one of the two sectors … entrepreneurship in the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450865
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Is it the survival of the fittest or of the jacks-of-all-trades? : business survival in the light of Lazear's theory
Mackiewicz, Michał; Kurczewska, Agnieszka - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 26 (2023) 2, pp. 167-180
,656 entrepreneurs and former entrepreneurs. We base our research on the theory of entrepreneurship by Edward Lazear, according to which … entrepreneurs. We extend this theory by verifying whether breadth of education and professional career also contribute to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281543
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Assessing post-harvest labor shortages, wages, and welfare
Cassey, Andrew J.; Lee, Kwanyoung; Sage, Jeremy; Tozer, … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 6 (2018) 17, pp. 1-24
For horticultural commodities, labor is necessary for post-harvest activities such as management, marketing, packing, and distribution. We create a model with pre- and post-harvest tasks and transportation network to study how a shortage in the pre-harvest labor market affects the post-harvest...
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