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Risky Earnings, Taxation and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Microeconometric Model for Germany

Fossen, Frank M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

Which role do individual income prospects play in the decision to be an entrepreneur rather than an employee? In a model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I...

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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...

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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Mapping the (In)visible College(s) in the Field of Entrepreneurship

Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011

Despite the vitality and dynamism that the field of entrepreneurship has experienced in the last decade, the issue of … environment’ of the field of entrepreneurship and to analyze the existence and characterization of (in)visible college(s) based on … entrepreneurship research. Based on more than a thousand papers published between 2005 and 2010 in seven core entrepreneurship journals …

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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments?: A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...

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The evolution of the literature on entrepreneurship. Uncovering some under researched themes

Santos, Cristina; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2009

particularly true in the case of entrepreneurship field. In the present paper we provide a survey of the literature based on an in … time and the current trends. From this exercise, we found that entrepreneurship education emerges as a recent theme with …

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"I Want to, But I also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...

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Entrepreneurial potential in Business and Engineering courses … why worry now?

Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2007

Research on entrepreneurship potential targeting university students is emerging. However, it is in general focused on …

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Network and firm antecedents of spin-offs: Motherhooding spin-offs

Ferreira, Manuel Portugal; Tavares, Ana Teresa; … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006

defined in this paper, contributes to the study of entrepreneurship and network evolution. …

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