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Housing collateral, credit constraints and entrepreneurship : evidence from a mortgage reform

Jensen, Thais Lærkholm; Leth-Petersen, Søren; … - 2014

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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom

Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021

This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...

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Can interactive online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? : experimental evidence from Rwanda

Lafortune, Jeanne; Pugatch, Todd; Tessada, José A.; … - 2022

We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we estimate sizeable effects of the 6-week training on entrepreneurial activity. One month after the...

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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow of venture capital, has been severely curtailed by the lockdown and social distancing measures taken by governments around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper,...

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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study

Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …

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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system

Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023

Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....

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Size matters : entrepreneurial entry and government

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of variables related to protection of property...

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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient suggests a positive linear link between the size of...

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Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan M. - 2010

The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We use difference-indifference models to estimate the...

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