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entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This … literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the heterogeneous nature of entrepreneurship. We …
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Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that … entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is …
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heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …
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Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …
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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … and result in occupational stratification along ethnic lines via concentrated entrepreneurship …
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This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
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important role that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints … examining the relevance of financing constraints for entrepreneurship. We then introduce a framework that provides a unified …
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. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …
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We use Census micro data to shed new light on how growth in house prices boosts US entrepreneurship. At the height of …-level relationship between house price increases and entrepreneurship operates through expansion of the home equity collateral channel … entrepreneurship observed in city-level analyses comes from higher local demand that boosts entry. Our results provide a nuanced …
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Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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