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Immigrant entrepreneurship in Romania: Drawing best practices from Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs' experiences

Ozmen, Ozgur; Grosu, Raluca Mariana; Dragusin, Mariana - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 23 (2021) 56, pp. 260-275

Migrant entrepreneurship represents a topic of a high societal and academic significance. For a host country, immigrant … field research carried out between July 2017 and December 2018, the present paper approaches immigrant entrepreneurship in …

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...

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Promoting women's economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection

Otobe, Naoko - 2014

The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...

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Are Risk Attitudes and Individualism Predictors of Entrepreneurship? A Multivariate Analysis of Romanian Data

Hatos, Adrian; Hatos, Roxana; Bădulescu, Alina; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 17 (2015) 38, pp. 148-161

entrepreneurship. More specific, it focuses on elaborating and empirically testing hypotheses related to structural push and pull … analysis confirm the importance of risk aversion for entrepreneurship, as expected, but reject the hypothesis of a significant …

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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries

Brück, Tilman; Naudé, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - 2013

entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …

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It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemploymentrather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on theopportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on income...

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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees

Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

See also the publication in Small Business Economics (2013), 40(3), 651-670. Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e....

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Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners

Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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The Importance of Being in Control of Business: Work Satisfaction of Employers, Own-account Workers and Employees

Hessels, Jolanda; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

Self-employed workers can be own-account workers who control their own work or employers who not only are their own boss but also direct others (their employees). We expect both types of self-employed, i.e., own-account workers and employers, to enjoy more independence in determining their work...

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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