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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- andfinancial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms … of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance ofsmall-firm ownership in some industries as … entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522199
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possiblelinkage into account, previous research has underestimated … the impacts both of risk aversionand balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may alsohelp explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486995
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Alte Idee, neues Programm:Der Gründungszuschuss als Nachfolger vonÜberbrückungsgeld und Ich-AG
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Die Gründungsförderung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit ist im Rahmen der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik im Rechtskreis SGB III nach wie vor eines der bedeutsamstenInstrumente. Zum 1. August 2006 löste der Gründungszuschuss (§ 57 SGB III) seine beidenVorgänger, das Überbrückungsgeld und den...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522211
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Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics,Survival and Direct Employment Effects
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Fostering and supporting start-up businesses by unemployed persons has become anincreasingly important issue in many European countries. These new ventures are beingsupported by various governmental programs. Potential benefits include not only the end ofunemployment for the new entrepreneur but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861159
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The Advantage of Experienced Start-Up Foundersin Venture Capital Acquisition:Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs
Zhang, Junfu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have moreskills and social … connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connectionscould give experienced founders some advantage in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862321
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relativecontribution … of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widelybeen studied empirically... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862087
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable?An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based onthe personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction ofentrepreneurial success...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863223
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs:New Evidence from anExperimentally-Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2006
The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussedtopic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of anentrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence thatmore risk-averse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869676
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Private Information, Human Capital, andOptimal “Home Bias” in Financial Markets
Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer newinsights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreignrisky assets, or “home bias”, from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribesthe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522205
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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