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This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...
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While a large literature has emerged focusing on nascent entrepreneurship, the propensity for ex-entrepreneurs to … consider re-entering into entrepreneurship, or what we term here as renascent entrepreneurship, has been generally overlooked … underlying but unobservable endowment of entrepreneurial skills from entering into entrepreneurship, there is virtually nothing …
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important channel back to regular employment. Business cycle effects strongly impact the employment transition matrix, and …
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Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high … economics from transition economics. …
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This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the 'refugee' effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self employment may indicate increased...
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We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … suggests that opportunities are endogenous. This paper bridges the gap between the entrepreneurship and economic literature on …
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populations. First, more that demonstrating the importance of cultural diversity for entrepreneurship, we show that the type of …
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resources and the transition economies are often viewed as suffering from inadequate reallocation of labour. We find the Czech … who change jobs have changed sector of employment. Although flows out of employment are small relative to other transition …
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This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant …
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