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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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Should Continued Family Firms Face Lower Taxes than Other Estates?
Grossmann, Volker - 2009
entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …
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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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Identity and Entrepreneurship
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2021
We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...
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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - CESifo - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948873
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Identity and Entrepreneurship
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - CESifo - 2009
We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979425
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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander; … - CESifo - 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/10010775095
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877680
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Tax Losses Due to Shadow Economy Activities in OECD Countries from 2011 to 2013 : A Preliminary Calculation
Schneider, Friedrich - 2016
In this short paper an attempt is undertaken to calculate the tax losses which result from shadow economy activities in a country. These calculations are done for the 28 EU countries, for 3 non-EU countries and for 2 other highly-developed OECD countries. The total tax losses over all 28...
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Comment on Feige's Paper 'Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies : What Do We Really Know about the 'Shadow Economy'?'
Schneider, Friedrich - 2016
This comment provides a reply to Prof. Feige's paper with the title “Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the ‘Shadow Economy'?”, in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show that the same critique which Prof. Feige raises...
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