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entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …
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Economic impacts of unionization on employers are difficult to estimate in the absence of large, representative data on establishments with union status information. Estimates are also confounded by selection bias, because unions could organize at highly profitable enterprises that are more...
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This paper explores the following hypotheses on the appropriate education for innovating entrepreneurship: a …
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entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …
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We explore the impact of the institutional environment on the nature of entrepreneurial activity across Europe. Political, legal, and regulatory variables that have been shown to impact capital market development influence entrepreneurial activity in the emerging markets of Europe, but not in...
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We seek to understand the relationship between employer decisions regarding which health plans firms choose to offer to their employees and the performance of those plans. We measure performance using data from the Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS) and the Consumer Assessment of...
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We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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This paper examines the relationship between Knightian uncertainty and Bayesian approaches to entrepreneurship. Using … entrepreneurship remain robust when accounting for Knightian uncertainty, particularly regarding experimentation, venture financing …, it maintains consistency with the three pillars of Bayesian entrepreneurship: heterogeneous beliefs, stronger …
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Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...
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giving birth after a cutoff date, we study whether the option to return to a previous job increases entrepreneurship. A … regression discontinuity design reveals that longer job-protected leave increases entrepreneurship by 1.9 percentage points …
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