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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323395
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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique
Batista, Catia; McIndoe Calder, Tara; Vicente, Pedro C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic … the impact of return migration on entrepreneurship is affected by double unobservable migrant self-selection, both at the …
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