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entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This … literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the heterogeneous nature of entrepreneurship. We …
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We examine the relationship between house prices and entrepreneurship using micro data from the US Census Bureau …. Increases in house prices are often thought to drive entrepreneurship through unlocking the collateral channel for bank loans … effects (i.e., that people with more valuable homes are more likely to enter entrepreneurship for reasons other than access to …
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Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that … entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is …
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heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …
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We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United …-isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via concentrated entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States …
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This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
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Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …
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The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …
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We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a cross-section of Fortune 500 firms, Tobin's Q first increases and then declines as board of directors holdings rise. For older firms there is weak evidence that Q is lower when a...
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. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …
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