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Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …
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Some commentators have suggested that the absence of portable health insurance impedes people from leaving their jobs to start new firms. We investigate this belief by comparing wage-earners who become self-employed during a given period of time with their counterparts who do not. By examining...
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Entrepreneurship, Gründungen, Marktdynamik -- Unternehmerische Selbständigkeit, Gründungsgeschehen und Marktdynamik in … Deutschland -- Entrepreneurial Choice: Wer gründet ein Unternehmen? Merkmale von Gründern -- Entrepreneurship als Prozess … Unternehmensgründungen -- Wirkungen von Gründungsprozessen -- Entrepreneurship-Politik. …
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Entrepreneurship resilience during a crisis is an important research area. However, prior research has not examined …
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This paper identifies a new reason for giving preferences to the disadvantaged using a model of contests. There are two forces at work: the effort effect working against giving preferences and the selection effect working for them. When education is costly and easy to obtain (as in the U.S.),...
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We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...
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This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one%u2019s group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three...
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