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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
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Who Starts a Business and who is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio …
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Drivers of Self-Employment - A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis for the Case of Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
for the East German recovery of entrepreneurship after 40 years of socialist regime. We find different results for self … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. …
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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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