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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...

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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance

Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....

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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance

Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors and effort choice (moral hazard). Partial insurance is available through voluntary unemployment insurance (UI). Additional incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a...

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Mental health and entrepreneurship: A bibliometric study and literature review

Pradana, Mahir; Elisa, Hanifah Putri; Utami, Dian Gita - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 2, pp. 1-12

Nowadays we can find a lot of studies on entrepreneurship which give more emphasis to the field's health-related issues … contributions to business and economics research and provide a comprehensive mental health discussion in entrepreneurship and … between the studies of mental health and entrepreneurship at the individual and organizational levels. …

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Entrepreneurial Competence and Small and medium enterprises’ Profitability: A Case of sunflower oil processing enterprises in Tanzania

Moshi, Rabisante; Matotola, Salum - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 2, pp. 1-8

Determine the influence of entrepreneurial competence on SMEs' profitability focusing on personal, interpersonal and business competencies on SMEs' profitability. A cross-sectional research design whereby data were collected at once from 102 randomly selected sunflower oil processing firms in...

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Challenges of change facing entrepreneurs and Kuwaiti SMEs

Al Bazie, Nouf; Braganza, Ashley - In: Cogent Business & Management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-13

This research paper addresses a clear question: what are the critical factors that policy makers and entrepreneurs need to be aware of when operating in transitional economies in order to sustain SMEs? The SME sector is critically important to Kuwait's transformation to a broad-based economy:...

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Entrepreneurial competencies and performance of Ugandan SMEs: the mediating role of firm capabilities

Kisubi, Moses Kisame; Aruo, Francis; Wakibi, Aziz; … - In: Cogent Business & Management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

The purpose of this study was twofold; (1) to establish the direct influence of Entrepreneurial competencies and Firm capability on SME Performance and (2) to examine the mediating role of Firm capability between Entrepreneurial competencies and SME Performance. A cross-sectional and explanatory...

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Why don't we see more Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Lithuania?

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper identifies the specific external barriers to SME development in Lithuania. An analysis of 332 SME owners reveals that formal barriers (taxes, frequent changes to and ambiguity of tax policies) and environmental barriers (low purchasing power, lack of funds for business investment)...

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Why less? The Gendered Aspects of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Ownership under Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper explores the gendered influence on SME development under economic transition in Lithuania. Previous studies have shown that male and female business owners are more different than similar in terms of personal and business characteristics (Brush 1992). An analysis of 332 SME owners in...

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Why less? The Gendered Aspects of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Ownership under Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

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