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Exposure to transit migration, public attitudes and entrepreneurship

Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Guriev, Sergej - 2020

Does exposure to mass migration affect economic behavior, attitudes and beliefs of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 and 2016 rounds of the Life in Transition Survey and data on the main land routes taken by...

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The evolving domain of entrepreneurship research

Carlsson, Bo; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; McKelvey, Maureen D.; … - 2013

Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This paper explores the history of entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize these issues stems partly from a general...

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Entrepreneurship, Corruption, and the Size of U.S. Underground Economies

Wiseman, Travis - 2015

Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official corruption, this paper examines whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower (higher) levels of informal economic activity....

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Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, & Income Levels : Some US State-Level Empirics

Wiseman, Travis - 2013

Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following pairs of variables: (1) institutions and entrepreneurial activity; (2) institutions and economic growth; and (3) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of...

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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : critical questions

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 5, pp. 1-16

entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we show that the standard policy response to migrants and migrant … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super … development in both sending and receiving countries, not least through reducing the shares of migrants that are reluctant …

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Small business economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian reservation

Benson, David A.; Lies, Aaron; Okunade, Albert A.; … - 2009

growth and poverty reduction. Our study tests the effects of the Lakota Fund (LF), a small business development initiative …

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Court-ship, kinship and business : a study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 7, pp. 1-21

In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...

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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...

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Persistence of regional entrepreneurship : causes, effects, and directions for future research

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017

and the effect this persistence has on development. It is argued that a regional culture of entrepreneurship plays an …

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The value orientation of entrepreneurs in challenging institutional contexts : insights from a unique historical episode

Wyrwich, Michael - 2020

Previous research suggests that entrepreneurs value autonomy more than non-entrepreneurs do across countries and institutional contexts. However, most evidence exists for contexts with more or less entrepreneurship-facilitating and stable institutional frame-work conditions while we do not know...

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