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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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2D:4D and self-employment using SOEP data : a replication study

Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the left-hand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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Entrepreneurship and regional windfall gains : evidence from the Spanish christmas lottery

Bermejo, Vicente; Ferreira, Miguel A.; Wolfenzon, Daniel; … - 2020

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Self-employment and geographical mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten van - 2011

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event' , the literature argues that selfemployed workers and …

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Return migration and self-employment : evidence from Mexican migrants

Orozco-Aleman, Sandra; Gonzalez-Lozano, Heriberto - In: Journal of labor research 42 (2021) 2, pp. 148-183

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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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