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significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …
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This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...
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I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young …" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship. …
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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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In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
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The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...
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