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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
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2D:4D and self-employment using SOEP data : a replication study
Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2020
The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018
operational definition of opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship using readily available nationally representative data. We …A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789099
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Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022
administrative firm-level panel data covering the universe of businesses filing sales taxes from the California Department of Tax and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329545
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Income taxation and hours worked in different types of entrepreneurship
Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2023
the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445272
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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?
Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005 - This version: October 2007
ambiguities and estimates it for data from 23 OECD countries between 1974 and 2002. The empirical results confirm the existence of …
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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010
an instrumental variables approachand a data set of more than ten thousand individuals from 27 European countries and the … the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379198
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Determinants of job satisfaction across the EU-15 : a comparison of self-employed and paid employees
Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Hessels, Jolanda; … - 2011 - Version: January 2011
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. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383255
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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372966
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The effects of non-compete agreements on different types of self-employment: evidence from Massachusetts and Utah
Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2020
-employment into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated … businesses. Using representative individual-level data from the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey, we …
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