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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship. …
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Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship to self-employment propensity in adulthood. Using data from the … Young Finns Study linked to the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data and the Longitudinal Population Census of … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
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least a third of their relationship in the data. Labor market frictions reduce output not only by affecting employment, but …
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Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019 …
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...
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. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …
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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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