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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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Behind the GATE experiment: Evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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The dynamics of combining self-employment and employment
Delmar, Frédéric; Folta, Timothy; Wennberg, Karl - 2008
This study examines the extent to which wage-earning workers are simultaneously self-employed, a phenomenon not thoroughly investigated in earlier studies. We use matched employee-employer databases to present a detailed investigation of self-employment patterns within the post industrial...
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Property Values and the Likelihood of Self-Employment
Hansson, Åsa; Kopsch, Fredrik - 2020
It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own capital or capital from friends, fools and family in order to acquire required capital. In this paper, we study the role property plays for starting a business or becoming...
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Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden
Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger - 2013
This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher...
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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …
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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 <I>Small Business Economics</I> (2013), 40(3), 651-670.<P> 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....</p></i>
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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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