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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Mueller, Elisabeth - 2011
This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304654
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256204
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018227
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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412966
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Ethnic minority entrepreneurship : an examination of Pakistani entrepreneurs in the UK
Collins, Lorna A.; Fakoussa, Rebecca - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
migrant entrepreneurs has been largely neglected by both entrepreneurship researchers (EURS 11(1), 27-46, 2004; EPGP 7(1), 153 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506395
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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065886
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Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
Dillon, Eleanor Wiske - 2017
with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963153
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Interaction of potential and effective entrepreneurial capabilities in adolescents : modeling youth entrepreneurship structure using structural equation modeling
Campo-Ternera, Lilia; Amar-Sepúlveda, Paola; … - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-17
personal traits and life skills, the family as a moderating element, as well as the mediating role of entrepreneurship training … processes. The complex nature of entrepreneurship is highlighted, which is influenced by multiple factors as possible boosters …
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Impact of attitude towards entrepreneurship education and role models on entrepreneurial intention
Amofah, Kwaku; Saladrigues, Ramon - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-30
, conference and workshops on entrepreneurship to boost the entrepreneurial spirit of students. Though this study has confirmed the … entrepreneurship education scholars, program evaluators, and policymakers. …
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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