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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …
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fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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-equation vector autoregression model capable of reconciling these ambiguities and tests it for data of 23 OECD countries over the …
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entrepreneurship. More specific, it focuses on elaborating and empirically testing hypotheses related to structural push and pull … using the block-model logistic regression on 2008 Romanian EVS (European Values Survey) data. The results of multivariate … analysis confirm the importance of risk aversion for entrepreneurship, as expected, but reject the hypothesis of a significant …
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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 …
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entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …
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Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …
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based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative …-tax welfare state. Earlier time-series studies analyzing self-employment and taxation have with few exceptions been based on data …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self … of data often is insufficient and difficult to access due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self …
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