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Serial Entrepreneurship : Learning by Doing?

Lafontaine, Francine - 2014

in operation. The data show that serial entrepreneurship is relatively uncommon in retail trade. Of the almost 2 …

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Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz - 2014

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …

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Do Entrepreneurs Want Control? And Should They Get What They Want? A Historical and Theoretical Exploration

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

From Elihu Thomson and Herbert Dow in the late nineteenth century to Steve Jobs a hundred years later, many entrepreneurs have been stymied by their investors. In this paper, we use a simple model to explore how outcomes might have been different if entrepreneurs, instead of the investors, had...

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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs

Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2017

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the...

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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014

Guzman, Jorge - 2016

entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …

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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists

Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...

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Long-term Direct and Spillover Effects of Job Training : Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Adriana - 2015

We use administrative data to examine medium and long-term formal education and labor market impacts among participants and family members of a randomized vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia. In the Colombian program, vocational training and formal education are...

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What Does Affirmative Action Do?

Holzer, Harry J. - 1998

We use data from a survey of employers to investigate how Affirmative Action in recruiting and hiring influences hiring practices, personnel policies, and ultimately employment outcomes. Our results show that Affirmative Action increases the number of recruitment and screening practices used by...

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Are Affirmative Action Hires Less Qualified? Evidence from Employer-Employee Data on New Hires

Holzer, Harry - 1996

In this paper we use micro-level data on employers and employees to investigate whether Affirmative Action procedures lead firms to hire minority or female employees who are less qualified than workers who might otherwise be hired. Our measures of qualifications include the educational...

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The Impact of Unions on the Labor Market for White and Minority Youth

Holzer, Harry J. - 1981

This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...

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