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A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-entrepreneurial self-employed. This finding highlights that entrepreneurship is distinct from other types of self …
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entrepreneurship? We compile four hand-collected measures of high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship (VC-funded IPOs, self … entrepreneurship and the other relating to small business activity. Except for the World Bank measure of firm registration of limited … liability companies quantity-based measures tend to be inappropriate proxies for high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. …
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We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …
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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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measures to proxy for entrepreneurship often gives rise to misleading inferences. Interestingly the rate of billionaire …, more venture capital investment and lower regulatory burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self …-employment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Regulation ; Self-employment …
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entrepreneurship. Moreover, we compare prototyping with entrepreneurial profiling, another person-oriented approach to the Big Five …, which assumes that low levels of agreeableness and high levels of all other traits describe a particular entrepreneurship … entrepreneurs. In the context of entrepreneurship, profiling should therefore only be seen as a first step on the way from the usual …
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entrepreneur - as a classic form of strategic entrepreneurship. Based on a large, representative German household panel data set … craft entrepreneurs from other types of entrepreneurship. The paper concludes with implications for policy and research. …
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field of entrepreneurship. The paper concludes with implications for policy and research. …
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This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher...
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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 … fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …
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