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Billionaires
Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - 2012
Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …
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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389083
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009389123
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Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship: An agenda for Europe
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2017
to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
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Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Europe compared to other industrialized regions
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017
We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917046
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Avoiding the housewife stigma: Self-employment as a female career choice
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018
This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...
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