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-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …
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chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …
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data is provided. Individual demographic and resource characteristics are found to be more important, but place effects are … relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women entrepreneurs in improving their business outcomes. It focuses...
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We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda …
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uncertainty). This paper presents empirical evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurial transition drawing on data from Waves 8 to … for aspiring entrepreneurs. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; switching costs ; occupational choice …
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Developing further the accumulating evidence that self-employment attracts optimists, this paper investigates the relationship between earnings and prior optimism. It finds that self-employed optimists earn less than self-employed realists. Amongst employees, optimists earn more. These results...
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regions. Longitudinal data covering 2009-2013 from the ESRC Understanding Society survey are used to examine transitions into …
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psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship …
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Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5 …
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