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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344
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Ethnic minority self-employment : poor paid employment prospects push minority workers into working for themselves, often in low-reward work
Clark, Kenneth - 2015
groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430234
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Latent entrepreneurship in transition economies : some entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs face financial and bureaucratic barriers to starting a business
Atasoy, Hilal - 2015
Because entrepreneurial activity can stimulate job creation and long-term economic growth, promoting entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431688
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Entrepreneurial opportunities and working conditions of self-employed online freelancers in the platform economy : Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Muszyński, Karol - 2023
This paper examines the experiences of self-employed online freelancers working on digital labour platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on interviews with freelancers and platform managers and experts in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland. Their experiences during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014491316
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Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany
Szarucki, Marek; Brzozowski, Jan; Stankevičienė, Jelena - In: Journal of business economics and management 17 (2016) 4, pp. 598-612
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What a difference a Y makes-female and male nascent entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 28 (2007) 1, pp. 1-21
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003423981
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Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: An application to occupational allocation in Africa
Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 111 (2015) C, pp. 137-153
By exploiting recent advances in mixed (stochastic parameter) ordered probit estimators and a unique longitudinal dataset from Ghana, this paper examines the distribution of subjective wellbeing across sectors of employment. We find little evidence for the overall inferiority of the small firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208880
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Self-employment and unemployment relationship in Romania : insights by age, education and gender
Grigorescu, Adriana; Pîrciog, Speranta; Lincaru, Cristina - In: Economic research 33 (2020) 1,3, pp. 2462-2487
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192551
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Entrepreneurship and the business cycle : nascent entrepreneurship can have some predictive power over the business cycle
Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2014
Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business … cycle? And is there causality? A twoway relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with … the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change creating upswings (opportunity entrepreneurship) and as rational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421978
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Rediscovering the craft entrepreneur : a personality approach
Runst, Petrik; Thomä, Jörg - 2022
entrepreneur - as a classic form of strategic entrepreneurship. Based on a large, representative German household panel data set … craft entrepreneurs from other types of entrepreneurship. The paper concludes with implications for policy and research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013418955