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Institutional influences on strategic entrepreneurial behaviours
Autio, Erkko; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009
positively the relationship between an individual's income and her growth aspirations. The findings support claims that strategic …
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?: returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees
Hartog, Joop; van Praag, C. Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2008
generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …
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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
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The impact of truancy on educational attainment: A bivariate ordered probit estimator with mixed effects
Buscha, Franz; Conte, Anna - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both truancy and attainment are measured as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281614
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
-economic background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique … (almost 20 percent of them being re-starters), a decision that pays for the majority of individuals in terms of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286464