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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 …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to … into the United States, comprehensive data for quantifying immigrant entrepreneurship are difficult to assemble. We combine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902521
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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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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas - 2014
In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government …
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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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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Falck, Oliver - 2010
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...
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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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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron - 2021
measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
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The Old-Boy Network and the Quality of Entrepreneurs
Bac, Mehmet; Inci, Eren - 2021
We study a model of network formation and start-up financing with endogenous entrepreneurial type distribution. A hub firm admits members to its network based on signals about entrepreneurs’ types. Network membership is observable, which allows lenders to offer different interest rates to...
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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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