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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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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …

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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?

Henley, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.

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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...

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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …

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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector

Henley, Andrew; Arabsheibani, G. Reza; Carneiro, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. This paper investigates the degree of...

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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by...

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