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Employment Risk, Returns, And Entrepreneurship, Sarah A. Low, Stephan Weiler
Employment Risk, Returns, And Entrepreneurship, Sarah A. Low, Stephan Weiler
Sarah A. Low
Comparing local employment portfolios against entrepreneurship, this paper finds local wage and salary job market prospects shape incentives for potential entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship may thus be more attractive in areas featuring high employment risk and/or low returns. This paper contributes to the existing regional employment portfolio literature by using more disaggregated data, at both the county and commuting zone levels. Commuting zones in particular represent a broader spectrum of labor market agglomerations across both rural and urban areas to provide the most stringent and revealing tests of the inter-relationship between local employment portfolios and the choice to pursue entrepreneurship. We find …
Defining And Measuring Entrepreneurship For Regional Research: A New Approach, Sarah A. Low
Defining And Measuring Entrepreneurship For Regional Research: A New Approach, Sarah A. Low
Sarah A. Low
A strong correlation might exist between entrepreneurship and long-term regional
employment growth (Acs and Armington, 2003). Entrepreneurship may be a more
sustainable economic development strategy than alternatives, like industrial recruitment,
because entrepreneurs tend to locate in their home region. Research and policies on
fostering entrepreneurship are hindered, however, by the lack of a clear definition and
measure of entrepreneurship (Bruyat and Pierre-Andre, 2000). Multiple definitions of
entrepreneurship, often flawed, lead to contradictory findings that fuel policymaker
confusion (Tamasy, 2006). Most importantly, the commonly used measures of
entrepreneurship ignore innovation—a long established defining attribute of
entrepreneurship for economic development. This is …
The Drivers Of Regional Entrepreneurship In Rural And Metro Areas, Jason Henderson, Sarah A. Low, Stephan Weiler
The Drivers Of Regional Entrepreneurship In Rural And Metro Areas, Jason Henderson, Sarah A. Low, Stephan Weiler
Sarah A. Low
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