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Entrepreneurs, Jacks of all trades or Hobos?

Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 637-649

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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

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Experience and Entrepreneurship

Rider, Christopher I.; Thompson, Peter; Kacperczyk, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

entrepreneurship among movers. The first dataset consists of 1,248, U.S. lawyers who were forced to seek alternative employment after …

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The Bright but Right View? A New Type of Evidence on Entrepreneurial Optimism

Bengtsson, Ola; Ekeblom, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...

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Employee Compensation in Entrepreneurial Companies

Bengtsson, Ola; Hand, John R. M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …

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Hierarchies, the Small Firm Effect, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish Microdata

Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However …

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