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The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
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This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.
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This paper examines the determinants of labor market transitions into and out of self-employment (own-account work and employer), using panel data from 12 developing countries in multiple regions. Despite cross-country heterogeneity, a few consistent patterns emerge. Entering the labor market...
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, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model with entrepreneurship we derive a … Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve, through which we illustrate that entrepreneurial start-ups are the outcome of the efficiency with … which entrepreneurial abilities are matched with business opportunities. The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve is a …
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Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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-employment into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated …
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their origin countries than non-migrants. This has led to the belief that return migration stimulates entrepreneurship in … findings cast doubt on the common narrative of return migration stimulating entrepreneurship and therefore economic development. …
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We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a … identified as a priority for African countries, rural entrepreneurship continues to fulfill mainly a risk-diversifying role. This …
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Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...
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