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We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch … by 3.9% on average. Education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly—with a rate of return of 13.7%—and … education on entrepreneurs' performance is estimated to be 3.0–4.6%.<P>This discussion paper has resulted in a publication in …
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performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education level but in … year <I>t</I> and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance … 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 … performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year … return in industrial countries. The return varies, however, by gender, rural or urban residence, and the share of agriculture …
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effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …
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This paper explores the gendered influence on SME development under economic transition in Lithuania. Previous studies have shown that male and female business owners are more different than similar in terms of personal and business characteristics (Brush 1992). An analysis of 332 SME owners in...
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We apply theories of capital market failure to ana1yzeoptima1 financing of risky higher education. In the market solution,students can only finance their education through debt. There isunderinvestment in human capita1, because some students with socia1lyprofitable investments in human capita1...
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Banks provide risky loans to firms which have superior information regarding the quality of their projects. Due to asymmetric information the banks face the risk of adverse selection. Credit Value-at-Risk (CVaR) regulation counters the problem of low quality, i.e. high risk, loans and therefore...
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integral performance. The present paper aims to trace to what extent and why some cities outperform others. Starting from an … consideration of the perceptions of important classes of stakeholders on the performance outcomes of the various cities involved …
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