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> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus shape the … labor market participants in the EU-15 countries from which we select individuals who have been observed as entrepreneurs …
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In this paper we provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. We rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business registers, census, or representative enterprise surveys). The...
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firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to … therelationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, infact, not be the same in …. The resultssuggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth arestrikingly …
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In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...
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a model in which HRM decisions affect employees' self-images and thereby their motivation. We show that in the absence …
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Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large ‘lab-in-the-field’ experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …
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positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we … also investigate how the newly insurance-induced entrepreneurs fare relative to their uninsured peers. Results suggest that …
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We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …
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intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …
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This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …
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