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Lazear, Edward P. - 2003

most important determinant of entrepreneurship is having background in a large number of different roles. Further, income …

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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: a simultaneous probit approach

Parker, Simon C. - 2005

This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...

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The jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur: innate talent or acquired skill?

Silva, Olmo - 2006

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …

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Who becomes an entrepreneur? Labor market prospects and occupational choice

Poschke, Markus - 2008

start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage work …. The paper shows that these facts can be explained in a model of occupational choice between wage work and entrepreneurship …

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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment

Henley, Andrew - 2009

Contemporary dynamic theories of self-employment choice focus on occupational switching costs, and the risk associated with entrepreneurial income streams. However little or no previous research has addressed the question of what factors determine the length of time that it takes aspiring...

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'I want to, but I also need to': start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2009

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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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie F. - 2004

Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...

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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany : Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...

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Why do individuals choose self-employment?

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …

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