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We study entrepreneurs’ start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informalnetwork, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals itgets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are thenreflected in different loan...
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced inthe mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy changeconsists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The resultsindicate that those who...
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entrepreneurship andprivate sector employment in Africa.... …
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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision towork in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as apuzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee.Information on income...
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-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004).Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …
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entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …
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Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiringbelow efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affectproductivity. These theoretical...
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that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What …
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employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non …
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