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Survival strategies and support networks : an anthropologic. perspective
Parris, Scott - 1984
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000702259
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The household effects of government spending
Giavazzi, Francesco; McMahon, Michael - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553628
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Is the willingness to take financial risk a sex-linked trait? : evidence from national surveys of household finance
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2013
country’s gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on …
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Microeconomic evidence of creative destruction in industrial and developing countries
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2004
"In this paper we provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. We rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business registers, census, or representative enterprise surveys). The...
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Have productivity and pay decoupled in the UK?
Teichgräber, Andreas; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655861
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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665439
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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008036
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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015
representative household panel data for Germany, which include personal health information, and we account for non-random sample … emerging literature describes for the system of employer provided health insurance in the USA, can also occur in a public … care reforms, not only in the USA and in Germany. …
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On the misery of losing self-employment
Hetschko, Clemens - 2014
German panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces self-employed workers ́satisfaction considerably...
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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