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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship : Not Just a Matter of Personality
Caliendo, Marco - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052066
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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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Ageing Municipalities, Gerontocracy and Fiscal Competition
Montén, Anna - 2008
We develop a simple model of fiscal competition among ageing municipalities. When ageing advances, gerontocracies and social planners gradually substitute publicly provided goods aimed at the mobile young population for publicly provided goods for the elderly. This substitution process does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768349
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Exit Dynamics of Start-Up Firms : Does Profit Matter?
Golombek, Rolf - 2015
We estimate by means of indirect inference a structural economic model where firms' exit and investment decisions are the solution to a discrete-continuous dynamic programming problem. In the model the exit probability depends on the current capital stock and a measure of short-run...
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Heterogeneity, Vetoes, and Exit Clauses in Federal Systems
Huysmans, Martijn - 2018
The vast majority of federations lack exit clauses. Existing theoretical explanations of this stylized fact focus on issues of credible commitment, signaling, and the risk of strategic exploitation. However, such accounts are unable to explain the adoption by the European Union (EU) of Article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910625
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A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2021
This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of …
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Exit and Power in General Equilibrium
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans H. - 2021
We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of...
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Behind the Gate Experiment : Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
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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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