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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries: A microeconomic perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development: growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...

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What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … accomplish. Our theory offers a unique perspective on the contributions of immigrants to economic development beyond traditional …

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Management of knowledge workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...

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Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2012

We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative … innovation. …

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2013

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?

Henley, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the strength of the potential relationship between entrepreneurial activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and economic development has attracted recent attention. A positive association may indicate that religion...

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Is Productive Entrepreneurship Getting Scarcer? A Reflection on the Contemporary Relevance of Baumol's Typology

Minniti, Maria; Naudé, Wim; Stam, Erik - 2023

We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is relevant for explaining the secular decline in business dynamics. To the existing explanations for this decline, we put forward the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less...

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