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Entrepreneurship, Organization Capital and the Evolution of the Firm
Oshima, Atsushi; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms her human capital over time into what we call...
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2017
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model's underlying mechanisms …
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Gender, Access to Finance, Occupational Choice, and Business Performance
Gazanchyan, Nelli S. - 2017
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of...
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Tax Neutrality : Illusion or Reality? The Case of Entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2008
This paper shows that taxes which are understood to be neutral with respect to the marginal investment decisions may be distortionary with respect to entrepreneurial decisions. In particular, we apply an intertemporal model to show that a comprehensive income tax is distortionary unless all...
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Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2018
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 … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …
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Plunging into the Sea : Ideological Change, Institutional Environments and Private Entrepreneurship in China
Yang, Jin - 2018
This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after …
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2017
This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity trap. The paper tests the implications of the model using a cross-sectional dataset including...
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Homeownership and Entrepreneurship : The Role of Mortgage Debt and Commitment
Bracke, Philippe - 2014
We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and … homeowners start a business; and (ii) the negative relation between mortgage debt and entrepreneurship is more pronounced when … income volatility is higher. Our model further predicts that the relation between housing wealth and entrepreneurship is …
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
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How Do Entrepreneurial Portfolios Respond to Taxation?
Fossen, Frank M. - 2017
into entrepreneurship, we use changes in entry regulation into skilled trades. Estimation results are consistent with the …
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