Journal Title
Title of Journal: Small Bus Econ
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Abbravation: Small Business Economics
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Authors: Ruta Aidis Saul Estrin Tomasz Marek Mickiewicz
Publish Date: 2010/08/12
Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 119-139
Abstract
We explore the countryspecific 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 countrylevel institutional indicators for 47 countries with workingage 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 countrylevel fixedeffects models
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