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Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
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We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … representative household panel data for Germany, which include personal health information, and we account for non-random sample ….e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock, which an …
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entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …
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operational definition of opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship using readily available nationally representative data. We …A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship …
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entrepreneurship empirically by means of investments made by active owners of closely held firms. Using detailed Swedish tax data, we …
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below a certain threshold were not affected. Using data from two different sources, the SOEP and the Mikrozensus (LFS), we …
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