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Business startup motives and satisfaction among Swedish selfemployed
Eriksson, Birgitta; Larsson, Patrik; Saruckij, Mark - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 2 (2006) 4, pp. 295-308
This article investigates if satisfaction with being selfemployed is affected by whether the decision to become selfemployed has been made by choice or by force. After a literature review, the hypothesis was that pull factors lead to higher satisfaction than push factors among the selfemployed....
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Micro credit in India: an overview
Sankaran, Mohanan - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 1 (2005) 1, pp. 91-100
The present paper reviews origin, development and growth of the micro credit programme in India. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development in India launched its pilot phase of the Self Help Group Bank Linkage programme in 1992. Self Help Groups have been recognised by the policy...
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Are self-employment training programs effective? Evidence from Project GATE
Michaelides, Marios; Benus, Jacob - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 695-705
We examine the efficacy of providing self-employment training to unemployed and other individuals interested in self-employment using data from Project GATE. This experimental design program offered self-employment training services to a random sample of individuals who expressed a strong...
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Do high school peers have persistent effects on college attainment and other life outcomes?
Bifulco, Robert; Fletcher, Jason M.; Oh, Sun Jung; … - In: Labour Economics 29 (2014) C, pp. 83-90
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that having more high...
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The impact of immigration on the French labor market: Why so different?
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - In: Labour Economics 29 (2014) C, pp. 14-27
Combining large (up to 25%) extracts of five French censuses and data from Labor Force Surveys for 1968–1999, we use Borjas' (2003) factor proportions methodology for France and find that a 10 p.p. increase in the immigrant share raises natives' wages by 3.3%, which is in stark contrast with...
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Money v.s. prestige: Cultural attitudes and occupational choices
Zhan, Crystal - In: Labour Economics 32 (2015) C, pp. 44-56
This paper studies the occupational choices of highly educated native-born American males and links their choices to cultural attitudes toward pecuniary rewards and social prestige in their ancestral countries. These cultural attitudes were reported in the World Values Survey, which surveyed...
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Discrimination, technology and unemployment
Merlino, Luca Paolo - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 4, pp. 557-567
I study the interaction between discrimination and investment using a directed search model where firms decide the capital intensity of their production technologies before being matched. Discrimination makes some workers cheap to hire. As a consequence, some firms might save on capital costs...
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What have we learned? Themes from the literature on necessity driven entrepreneurship
Tipu, Syed Awais Ahmad - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 1, pp. 70-91
The aim of this paper is to review the important themes in the literature on necessity driven entrepreneurship and to … entrepreneurship; creation and management of a necessity driven venture; contextualising the necessity entrepreneurship; performance of … a necessity driven venture; and the criticism of necessity driven entrepreneurship. The author argues that the extant …
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Self-employment, educational attainment and employment protection legislation
Baumann, Florian; Brändle, Tobias - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 846-859
We analyse how educational attainment and employment protection influence an individual's decision to become self-employed. By altering expected income from dependent employment, employment protection is likely to affect an individual's choice of occupation, although such a link has not been...
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New evidence on the relationship between risk attitudes and self-employment
Skriabikova, Olga J.; Dohmen, Thomas; Kriechel, Ben - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 176-184
This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that individuals could not observe what it is like to be self-employed. Since the intra-family...
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