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A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …
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Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …
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A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …
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Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …
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Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
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Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is … institutions flourish, so do self-employed entrepreneurs. But billionaires don't. -- Billionaires ; entrepreneurship ; self …
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. Innovative entrepreneurship is a complex activity that normally requires support structures and collaboration by actors providing …
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incorporates greater complexity in studying the link between taxes and business activity - particularly entrepreneurship. Dividend …
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One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...
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We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we fi nd no effect of...
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