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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255609
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Self-Employment around Retirement Age
Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256137
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256235
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144470
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Self-Employment around Retirement Age
Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838648
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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000
Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; Stel, André van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second … (uncertaintyavoidance) may have a diverging impact on entrepreneurship. Possibly, a climate of uncertainty avoidancein large organizations …, suggesting that risingopportunity costs of entrepreneurship are the dominant perception in this cultural environment. In a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255529
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The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited
Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256128
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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries
Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
In the present paper we address the relationship between the extentof business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256131
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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries
Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2000
In the present paper we address the relationship between the extent of business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focus upon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownership related to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144445
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The Relation between Economic Development and Business Ownership revisited
Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136892