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Client-Based Entrepreneurship
Rauch, James E. - 2010
soliciting the current client in the event of termination of employment. The socially optimal level of entrepreneurship will … are too restrictive and produce too little entrepreneurship, and governments can increase welfare by limiting enforcement …
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The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship
Hall, Robert E. - 2008
aversion, higher initial assets, preferences for entrepreneurship over employment, and optimistic beliefs about the payoffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464428
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University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups
Chukumba, Celestine - 2005
a start-up, or the inventor's effort cost in development is lower in a start-up. We test the theory using data from the … with the predictions of our theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467204
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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000
an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …
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Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K. - 2018
We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453515
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Demographics and Entrepreneurship
Liang, James - 2014
Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …
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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry
Scheuer, Florian - 2013
This paper analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax...
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Public Entrepreneurial Finance around the Globe
Bai, Jessica; Bernstein, Shai; Dev, Abhishek; Lerner, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines how government funding programs geared towards early-stage companies interact with private capital markets. Using hand-collected data on 755 government programs worldwide, we find that governments' allocations to such funding programs have been comparable to global venture...
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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists
Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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