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Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …
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are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European countries and the United …
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entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …
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Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
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This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … return in industrial countries. The return varies, however, by gender, rural or urban residence, and the share of agriculture … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...
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We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
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manipulated the gender composition of teams and assigned students randomly to teams, conditional on their gender. We find that … teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated teams in terms of sales and profits. We explore various … mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance (including …
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? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage …
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