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between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
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where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
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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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We propose an extension of the standard occupational choice model to analyze the life satisfaction of senior entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status as main factors that shape the relationship between...
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This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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This paper analyses job separations in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 1984 to 2003. Based on detailed reasons for job separation and different SOEP samples, the paper attempts to establish the nature of job separations in Germany. It brings to light some...
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Social interaction is an important vehicle of human capital acquisition and its efficiency decreases in social distance. In this paper I establish that these two premises, given the socio-cultural differences between ethnic groups, explain the puzzling evidence that (i) minorities typically earn...
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