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The self-employment of men and women : what are their motivations?

Allen, W. David; Curington, William Peter - In: Journal of labor research 35 (2014) 2, pp. 143-161

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Differences in self-employment duration by year of entry & pre-entry wage-sector attachment

Luque, Adela; Jones, Maggie R. - In: Journal of labor research 40 (2019) 1, pp. 24-57

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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Quantitative, non-experimental approaches to the microeconomic evaluation of public policy measures : a survey

Keilbach, Max C. - 2005

The objective of evaluating public policy measures is to assess its implications and thus to obtain a measure for weather the respective program has been successful. In this paper, we consider and classify microeconomic and microeconometric approaches to measuring this success. To do so, the...

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The impact of intellectual property rights on self-employed entrepreneurship : an international analysis

Burke, Andrew (contributor); Fraser, Stuart (contributor) - 2005

typically less innovative self-employed entrepreneurship. The paper sets out to estimate the net effect of the various elements …

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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005 - This version: October 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the “refugee” effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate...

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Linking business ownership and perceived administrative complexity : an empirical analysis of 18 OECD countries

Stel, Adriaan J. van (contributor); … - 2004

Administrative burdens are known to be a major business constraint for incumbent SMEs in modern economies. Far less is known about the influence of these burdens on the startup of new firms. The current paper examines to what extent perceived administrative complexity related to starting a new...

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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment : is Portugal an outlier?

Baptista, Rui (contributor); Thurik, Adriaan R. (contributor) - 2004

The present paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, as measured by the variation in business … outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average. Although the nature … of entrepreneurship may be different in the Portuguese case, due to a high proportion of "micro-businesses" created for …

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