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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …
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Recent research has shown that 'rich' households save at much higher rates than others (see Carroll (2000); Dynan Skinner and Zeldes (1996); Gentry and Hubbard (1998); Huggett (1996); Quadrini (1999)) This paper documents another large difference between the rich and the rest of the population:...
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promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …
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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …
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This study examines the extent to which wage-earning workers are simultaneously self-employed, a phenomenon not thoroughly investigated in earlier studies. We use matched employee-employer databases to present a detailed investigation of self-employment patterns within the post industrial...
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This paper responds to Welter's (2011) call to pay more attention to the diversity of entrepreneurship in theorizing … entrepreneurship places". Our discussion illustrates some useful cues our research might draw on to challenge and improve theoretical … understanding of place in entrepreneurship. …
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It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own capital or capital from friends, fools and family in order to acquire required capital. In this paper, we study the role property plays for starting a business or becoming...
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