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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

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Productive and Destructive Entrepreneurship in a Political Economy Framework

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Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or negative effects on overall productivity. Embedding central elements from these theories into a political economy framework reveals the bilateral causal relation between...

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Entrepreneurship and Second-best Institutions: Going Beyond Baumols Typology

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destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol's classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and … therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of entrepreneurship in real world circumstances characterized by suboptimal … institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship and show how and why it encompasses the …

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

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Compulsory Education and Jack-of-all-trades Entrepreneurs

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Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper … is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the theoretical model proposed, abilities are an outcome of talent and …

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Controlin an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model.The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment ofand accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is thatentrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360633