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The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in … small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this …
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entrepreneurship are low. We reconsider the pecuniary gains from this transition using a unified and flexible approach based on a mixed … model with heterogeneous returns to entrepreneurship. Addressing the issue of self-selection, we analyze to what extent … who do have a realistic alternative opportunity. Our data set covers the whole Norwegian population of individuals matched …
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self-employment, new business plans, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial traits using data from the Nepal …
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This paper provides a theoretical model for explaining the separation of ownership and control in firms. An entrepreneur hires a worker, whose effort is necessary for running a project. The worker\'s effort determines the probability that the project will be completed on time, but the worker...
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. Using registry data on the whole population we address gender differences in the propensity to become an entrepreneur. We do … so by analysing transition from ordinary wage employment into entrepreneurship, defined as either sole proprietorship or … owner- managed incorporated entrepreneurship. We focus on the impact of the family and household situation and show that …
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reason is lack of micro data enabling us to track tax-payers' movements across organizational modes. By exploiting new panel … data that combine information from several public registers, we observe Norwegian owners of small businesses and their …
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Namibian hake is the most important fish resource in Namibia. This monograph is a compilation of all the hake data … analysis treats the two hakes, Merluccius paradoxus and M. capensis, as a single stock. The data and modeling show that the …
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This paper traces the evolution of space-derived remote sensing data and data products from their initial dissemination …, and ecosystem assessment. Our approach differs from previous studies that have characterized the value of data in terms of …
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The seminal paper by Pissarides and Weber (1989) is one of several previous studies trying to measure the size of the black economy. Pissarides and Weber compared the relationship between food expenditure and income in two groups of workers, self-employed and employees in employment, assuming...
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a firm's exit behavior. Some key characteristics of the data are: i) 25 percent of firms that exited experienced … may continue production, even though they frequently experience negative profits. We use these data to estimate a theory …
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