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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497816
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Creating Low-Skilled Jobs by Subsidising Market-Contracted Household Work
Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We analyse the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...
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Taxation and Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Soren Bo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
capital-backed entrepreneurship. We also argue that dividend and capital gains taxes on mature firms have important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504248
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Soren Bo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
an entrepreneurial sector, the Paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666436
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123900
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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants vs Natives
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124236
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Renascent Men or Entrepreneurship as a One-Night Stand: Entrepreneurial Intentions Subsequent to Firm Exit
Audretsch, David B; Meijaard, Joris; Stam, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
While a large literature has emerged focusing on nascent entrepreneurship, the propensity for ex-entrepreneurs to … consider re-entering into entrepreneurship, or what we term here as renascent entrepreneurship, has been generally overlooked …. According to the theory of selection and passive learning (Jovanovic, 1982), while there is a lot to be learned about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124242
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Learning to be an Entrepreneur
Guiso, Luigi; Schivardi, Fabiano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
entrepreneurship to allow for the possibility that entrepreneurial talents may be acquired by watching other entrepreneurs in action …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497788
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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