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Unraveling two myths about entrepreneurs

Hessels, Jolanda; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; van der Zwan, … - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 3, pp. 435-438

The supposed creativity of left-handed and dyslexic individuals may fit well with an entrepreneurial occupation. Empirical evidence from two representative Dutch samples, however, shows that left-handed and dyslexic individuals are not more likely to be(come) entrepreneurs than right-handed and...

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Young immigrant children and their educational attainment

Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 288-290

We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in The Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and whether or not one of the parents is native Dutch.

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English deficiency and the native–immigrant wage gap

Miranda, Alfonso; Zhu, Yu - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 38-41

Using the interaction of language of country of birth and age-at-arrival as instruments, we find strong evidence of a causal effect of English as Additional Language (EAL) on the native–immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK.

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Fractionalization and trust in India: A field-experiment

Chuah, Swee-Hoon; Fahoum, Reema; Hoffmann, Robert - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 2, pp. 191-194

Is India’s high fractionalization associated with mistrust between its two main religious communities? An inter-ethnic trust game field experiment confirms intergroup bias in mutually lower offers between urban Muslims and Hindus in Mumbai. There are no differences in trustworthiness based on...

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Disadvantages of linguistic origin—Evidence from immigrant literacy scores

Isphording, Ingo E. - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 236-239

This study quantifies the disadvantage in literacy skills that arises from the linguistic distance between their mother tongue and host country language, combining individual cross-country data on literacy scores with unique information on the linguistic distance between languages.

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How does employment protection legislation influence hiring and firing decisions by the smallest firms?

Millán, Ana; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción; … - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 3, pp. 444-448

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on hiring decisions by own-account workers and firing decisions by very small firms (one to four employees). Using data from the EU-15 countries, our results show that the strictness of employment protection legislation is...

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Risk attitude, product innovation, and firm growth. Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Cucculelli, Marco; Ermini, Barbara - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 275-279

We study the impact of individual risk attitude on the relationship between product innovation and firm performance, in a model of firm growth with endogenous product selection. We exploit a unique dataset collecting firm-level data on new product introductions and individual attitudes towards...

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Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? A comment

Bonilla, Claudio A.; Vergara, Marcos - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 329-331

Cressy (2000) argues that the positive correlation between assets and the rate of business startups is due to DARA preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence, and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA.

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Linking Entrepreneurial Infrastructures and New Business Development

Tseng, Chien-Chi - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurship 21 (2012) 1, pp. 117-132

infrastructures are important to support the necessary entrepreneurship development. The research of new business development adds …

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Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy: An Integrative Approach

Dhliwayo, Shepherd - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurship 23 (2014) 1, pp. 115-135

The two fields of strategic management and entrepreneurship have been viewed as inseparable twins and the relationship … has been coined strategic entrepreneurship by a number of scholars. Though the integrative studies of the two areas … conceptual article which aims to show how business strategy can be integrated with entrepreneurship to enhance firm …

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