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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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Entrepreneurship Versus Joblessness : Explaining the Rise in Self-Employment

Falco, Paolo - 2013

The self-employed constitute a large proportion of the workforce in developing countries and the sector is growing. Different accounts exist as to the causes of this development, with pull factors such as high returns to capital contrasted with push factors such as barriers to more desirable...

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Would a Flat Tax Stimulate Entrepreneurship in Germany? : A Behavioural Microsimulation Analysis Allowing for Risk

Fossen, Frank M. - 2008

When possible income tax reforms are debated, the suspected impact on entrepreneurship is often used as an argument in … entrepreneurship based on microeconometric research have not been provided by the literature, however. This paper estimates the ex …

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'I Want to, But I Also Need to' - Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...

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Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden

Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

This paper makes use of individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses in Sweden to estimate the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral...

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Billionaires

Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

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The Interaction of Entrepreneurship and Institutions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by … institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by … entrepreneurship. As business entrepreneurship, innovative political activity may be productive or unproductive, depending on the …

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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

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