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Size matters: entrepreneurial entry and government

Aidis, Ruta, Estrin, Saul ORCID: 0000-0002-3447-8593 and Mickiewicz, Tomasz Marek (2012) Size matters: entrepreneurial entry and government. Small Business Economics, 39 (1). pp. 119-139. ISSN 0921-898X

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Identification Number: 10.1007/s11187-010-9299-y

Abstract

We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual’s decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption and on “market freedom” defined as a cluster of variables related to protection of property rights and regulation. We test these relationships by combining country-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working-age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Our results indicate that entrepreneurial entry is inversely related to the size of the government, and more weakly to the extent of corruption. A cluster of institutional indicators representing “market freedom” is only significant in some specifications. Freedom from corruption is significantly related to entrepreneurial entry, especially when the richest countries are removed from the sample, but unlike the size of government, the results on corruption are not confirmed by country-level fixed-effects models.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://link.springer.com/journal/11187
Additional Information: © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media
Divisions: Management
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Date Deposited: 19 Sep 2017 13:13
Last Modified: 06 Nov 2024 02:30
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/84249

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