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219 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9284
Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review
Wim Naudé, Melissa Siegel, Katrin Marchand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9008
Is Self-employment a Way to Escape from Skill Mismatches?
Judit Albiol Sanchez, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Graciela Teruel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8981
The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs: New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Robert M. Sauer, Tanya Wilson
published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 73-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8887
Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship
Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Sarani Saha
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8818
Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alina Sorgner
published in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8817
Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker, Steffen Künn, Frank Wießner
published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8816
Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment
Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (3), 647-669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8777
Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations
David P. Varady, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham
published as: "The Potential of Community Entrepreneurship for Neighbourhood Revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States". published in: [ Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy], 2015, 9(3), 253-276.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8652
The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Zoltan J. Acs, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz, László Szerb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8651
Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8577
Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Martin Koudstaal, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8564
Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8524
Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8486
Female Self-Employment and Children: The Case of Sweden
Pernilla Andersson Joona
a revised version entitled "Are mothers of young children more likely to be self-employed? The case of Sweden" is forthcoming in Review of Economics of the Household 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8367
Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Robert W. Fairlie, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8295
Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Nkechi S. Owoo, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8273
By Choice and by Necessity: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World
David N. Margolis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8237
Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance
Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8219
Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy
Jörn Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller, Katrin Ullrich
published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 44 (1), 37-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8195
Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique
Catia Batista, Tara McIndoe Calder, Pedro C. Vicente
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.
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