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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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administrative firm-level panel data covering the universe of businesses filing sales taxes from the California Department of Tax and …
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the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019 …
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insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … representative household panel data for Germany, which include personal health information, and we account for non-random sample ….e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock, which an …
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aimed at stimulating opportunity entrepreneurship versus active labor-market policies supporting self-employment as a way … of new opportunity and new necessity entrepreneurship for the 17 Spanish regions. To test whether exogenous shocks have … long-run effects on firm formation, we apply a battery of panel data and time series unit root tests accounting for …
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-employment into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated … businesses. Using representative individual-level data from the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey, we …
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This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never …
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. -- entrepreneurship ; trust ; reciprocity …
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