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Entrepreneurship and Independent Professionals: Why do Professionals not meet with Stereotypes of Entrepreneurship?

Bögenhold, Dieter; Heinonen, Jarna; Akola, Elisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The study discusses myths of entrepreneurship by looking at the overlapping areas of entrepreneurship, self … journalists, translators, interpreters and artists at the blurred boundaries between waged work and entrepreneurship. Findings … reveal that the professions are clearly different and the manifestations of entrepreneurship vary, reflecting the work and …

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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human … depth analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship in Italy, thus accounting for the role that variables like the …

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The Dynamics of Self-employment in a Developing Country: Evidence from India

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...

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Exploring Greek innovation activities: the adoption of generalized linear models

Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper we examine the innovative performance of Greek firms in terms of the women participation in research and technological development. For this reason we rely on the final results of a research project on women in innovation, technology and science, based on 279 questionnaires...

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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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Self-Employment Dynamics across the Business Cycle: Migrants versus Natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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"I Think I Can, I Think I Can": Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

Many firms fail shortly after inception. Yet individuals continue starting businesses. Prewar economists such as Keynes invoked animal spirits and stressed psychological factors in their explanations of economic behavior. Using a large sample obtained from surveys conducted in 18 countries, we...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …

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Entrepreneurial Overconfidence: Evidence from a C.A.R.T. Approach

Köllinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

We use a sample of 18 countries to study what variables have a significant impact on an individual's decision to start a new business and classification and regression trees for an accurate interpretation of the data. Our results support existing literature suggesting the existence of strong...

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Renaissance of Entrepreneurship? Some remarks and empirical evidence for Germany

Boegenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working on their own having no … prosperous dynamics. However, even the area of entrepreneurship at the margins seems to be a wide field. It highlights not only … the broad margins of entrepreneurship but also the fluent boarders between entrepreneurship and the informal sector on the …

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