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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …

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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints Under Labour Market Discrimination

Frijters, Paul - 2011

entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and …

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Entrepreneurship : Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?

Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012

psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship …

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Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs

Wellschmied, Felix - 2019

US entrepreneurs typically work long hours in their firms and these hours form a large part of the firms' labor input. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth distribution among entrepreneurs. We introduce owners' endogenous labor supply into a model of...

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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration

Bisin, Alberto - 2010

We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...

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Diasporas and Conflict

Mariani, Fabio - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive activity. We consider the effect of an increase in the employer's knowledge (information) regarding...

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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Self-Employment, Wage Employment and Informality in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2012

initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment … informal wage employment, and formal and informal entrepreneurship may all coexist. We illustrate the model by an example …

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias - 2014

where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …

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