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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …
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-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
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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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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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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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knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …
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This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the … recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to … create a new classification code, L26, for entrepreneurship. The JEL intends to use this code for all articles and books that …
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272292