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Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving: New Evidence from German Households
Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005026828
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Institutions and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: A Comparative Perspective
Estrin, Saul; Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007
entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM …’s institutional environment is important to explain its relatively low levels of entrepreneurship development, where the latter is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677437
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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006
. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677688
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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671251
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961524