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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282614
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971
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US immigration policy at a crossroads
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291373
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Ability dispersion and team performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...
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Identity and entrepreneurship
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2009
test this empirically, we apply instrumental variable approaches to PISA data. Our findings suggest that having an … ; entrepreneurship ; identity ; peer effects …
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Entrepreneurship and the business cycle
Koellinger, P. D.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Date of completion of this updated manuscript: Mar 23, 2011
contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378123
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Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance
Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005
We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337974
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Can working conditions explain the return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle?
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2013
this “return-to-entrepreneur-ship puzzle” could be that entrepreneurship entails substantial non-monetary bene-fits, such … as autonomy, flexibility, and task variety. Utilizing German data and a de-composition analysis, this study examines the … results imply that working conditions differences do not contribute to resolve the return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle. Rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195608
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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308759