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non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the … shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …
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Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United …
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data. Weak evidence is found for the proposition that the rate of entrepreneurship is related to the degree of income …We find evidence in the OECD cross-country data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks … shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and …
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Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
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One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
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self-employed in some occupations. Using longitudinal social security data, we implement a matched difference …
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self-employment and paid-employment. Using Spanish administrative data, we characterize the distribution and dynamics of …
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quantify their effects, and also in terms of more and higher quality data. The objective of this paper is to trace the … evolution of the methods and data developments in the RTA literature, from Tinbergen's very first exploration until today, and …
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … saving and correlated abilities. Third, we provide new evidence from matched Current Population Survey (1993-2004) data to …
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industries heavily affected by set-asides and mostly benefited the better educated. -- entrepreneurship ; affirmative action …
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