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employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is more risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2,100 small businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple bilateral regression and also when we control for a...
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … and exit decisions. Nonpecuniary benefits of entrepreneurship, such as being independent in the workplace, also contribute … to an explanation of entrepreneurial behavior. -- Entrepreneurship ; risk aversion ; portfolio choice …
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and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist … and that they have long-lasting effects. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; new business formation ; persistence …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … starting a business. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; start-ups ; Germany …
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; Entrepreneurship ; Educational entry requirement ; Natural experiment ; Craftsmanship …
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them, to create growth from the ruins of extreme events. -- Perceptions ; expectations ; entrepreneurship ; extreme events …
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We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on … spillover effects via entrepreneurship within a certain region. Between regions, entrepreneurship as a vehicle by which … evidence for regionally bounded knowledge spillover effects via entrepreneurship. -- Entrepreneurship capital ; regional output …
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, lenders may charge higher interest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of a more … entrepreneurship. -- Personal bankruptcy law ; insolvency ; entrepreneurship ; fresh start …
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