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Hvide, Hans K.; Panos, Georgios A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013

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Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...

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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910-1990

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

We examine trends in entrepreneurship among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata …

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Recent Trends in Ethnic and Racial Business Ownership

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

entrepreneurship among several ethnic/racial groups in the United States.Â I find rapid growth rates for the number of self …

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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 1999

Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.Â The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

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Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …

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