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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

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Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...

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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …

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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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"I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set … between motives, survival rates and entrepreneurial development. We find in particular that start-ups out of opportunity and …

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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a … identified as a priority for African countries, rural entrepreneurship continues to fulfill mainly a risk-diversifying role. This …

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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship – education – and approximately three times larger than …

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