Search results for "self-employment"
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Animació i motivació per a l'autoocupació: l'esperit emprenedor a l'escola
2012
El sistema educatiu pot contribuir enormement a l'impuls de l'esperit emprenedor, a la creació d'una cultura emprenedora tot començant pels més joves i a l'escola. Perquè impulsant les actituds i les capacitats emprenedores es beneficia la societat, fins i tot més enllà de l'aplicació d'aquestes capacitats a noves iniciatives empresarials. En un sentit més ampli, l'esperit emprenedor s'hauria de considerar com una actitud general que pot resultar útil en totes les activitats laborals i en la vida quotidiana. Qualsevol pot necessitar, i de fet necessitarà en algun moment de la vida, convertir-se en empresari o adoptar un comportament empresarial. Per tant, entre els objectius de l'educació, …
Una experiència de coaching grupal i desenvolupament de competències emprenedores en estudiants universitaris
2012
L'ocupabilitat dels estudiants universitaris sovint suposa un desajust entre el perfil professional i el perfil buscat per les empreses, impulsades per criteris d'originalitat, aplicabilitat, viabilitat i estructura; una nova avaluació, d'acord amb els mateixos criteris, es fa pels professors externs a l'assignatura i, finalment, es remeten a la Càtedra d'Emprenedoria, demanant avaluació i les diverses subvencions i subsidis que podrien rebre si decideixen dur a terme el projecte. Els resultats obtinguts segueixen un patró establert en els diferents grups. Aquells que, d'acord amb els criteris anteriors (originalitat, aplicabilitat, viabilitat i estructura), obtenen millors resultats a trav…
Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates
2012
In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in the final year of licence appliquee were given the opportunity to graduate with a business plan instead of following the standard curriculum. This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor market outcomes one year after graduation. The analysis finds that the entrepreneur…
The Evolution of Entrepreneurship Activity Indicators in Two European Countries
2013
Abstract The aim of this paper is to present how the economic situation affected the evolution of the entrepreneurial activity in Romania and Hungary in the last few years including the in the post-crisis period. We will have a look at the attitudes, perceptions and aspiration towards entrepreneurship in Romania and Hungary and will briefly outline some of the similarities and differences between the indicators in these two European countries based on the GEM framework. The paper will provide a brief overview of some entrepreneurship related indicators and will be used for an future introductory analysis, which is meant to provide the basis for further investigation in order to thoroughly u…
Microcredit for Self-Employed Disabled Persons in Developing Countries
2005
Microcredit has become a popular instrument to promote economic empowerment among poor entrepreneurs, and is increasingly being recommended to improve economic rehabilitation among persons with disabilities. However, the majority of the advocates of microcredit for persons with disabilities seem not to be informed on the involved “rules of the game”. At the same time the microfinance community lacks information on disability issues. In this report we aim on closing the gap in knowledge and culture between the disability- and the microfinance communities. We apply resource based theory to analyze when microcredit for disabled persons is an appropriate tool and when it is not. We argue that a…
The nature of self-employment: how does gender matter?
2010
This paper analyses female and male entrepreneurship and the differences between them in Finland. The female self-employment rate is clearly lower than that of male self-employment in Finland. The paper shows that differing behaviour accounts for differing rates of self-employment between females and males. The predicted earnings differential between self-employment and paid employment has a divergent effect on the probabilities of self-employment. For males, it is positive (as expected). For females, it has no effect, which accentuates the other motives they have for self-employment. Both spouse and family are found to have bigger effects on female self-employment than on male self-employm…
Creatine and entrepreneurship
2016
Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid which supplies energy to body cells and enhances physical performance. Using the Young Finns Study combined with the Finnish Linked employer-employee data we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect entrepreneurial success as measured by capital income accumulation over the period 1993–2010 (in particular for females). However, we do not find evidence that creatine affects the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Our study contributes to the emerging literature on biomarkers and entrepreneurship. peerReviewed
What Distinguishes a Serial Entrepreneur?
2007
We analyze serial entrepreneurship using a unique cross-sectional survey of employees that is for this study linked with longitudinal, register-based employer-employee data. Serial entrepreneurship accounts for nearly 30% of the transitions from paid employment into entrepreneurship. What make an entrepreneur serial are her aspirations and her ability to go ahead and live by them. Specifically, we document that having worked in the past as an entrepreneur increases both the probability that a person presently in paid employment aspires to again become an entrepreneur and , holding the aspirations constant, the probability of her again becoming an entrepreneur. We also find that an employee …
Regional unemployment, self-employment and family background
2006
This paper analyses the role of regional unemployment on self-employment. The paper argues that family background separates individuals with respect to the effect of unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on data on a sample of Finnish residents aged 0–14 years in 1970 whose subsequent employment is examined. The results show that high unemployment in a region pushes individuals from self-employed families into self-employment, while it has the opposite effect on individuals from wage earner families. The push effect seems to work only among those individuals who already have entrepreneurial skills through their family background. peerReviewed
The Role of Entrepreneurship Education in Fostering Entrepreneurial Intentions and Performances: A Review of 30 Years of Research
2018
espanolMuchos academicos han enfatizado en las fuertes relaciones entre el emprendimiento, el trabajo independiente y el crecimiento del mercado laboral en la sociedad contemporanea. En todo el mundo se han disenado varios programas academicos y de entrenamiento a fin de aumentar la propension al emprendimiento. Este articulo busca mostrar las evidencias empiricas acerca de los efectos de los programas educativos de emprendimiento sobre el atractivo percibido y la viabilidad percibida de la iniciacion de una nueva empresa, los activos de capital humano relacionados al emprendimiento y los resultados del emprendimiento. Se han analizado los moderadores que afectan la relacion entre la educac…