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The right stuff? Personality and entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; … - In: Quantitative Economics 10 (2019) 2, pp. 643-691

We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the nonpecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...

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Do elite colleges matter? The impact on entrepreneurship decisions and career dynamics

Guo, Naijia; Leung, Charles Ka Yui - In: Quantitative Economics 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1347-1397

Elite college attendance significantly impacts students' entrepreneurship decisions and career dynamics. We find that an elite college degree is positively correlated with entrepreneurship (i.e., owning an incorporated business) but not with other self-employment forms. Our overlapping...

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The Impact of Functional Integration and Spatial Proximity on the Post-entry Performance of Knowledge Intensive Business Service Firms

Koch, Andreas; Strotmann, Harald - 2005

Knowledge intensive business service firms (KIBS) are an important element of modern economies and thus attracting … increasing interest in scientific research. In the existing literature it is argued that due to the important role of knowledge …, innovation and userproducer interaction in the KIBS sector, functional integration and spatial proximity are particularly …

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