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The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants

Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Grilo, Isabel - 2007

Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …

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Entrepreneurial exit in real and imagined markets

Stam, Erik; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Zwan, Peter van der - 2009 - Version: October 2009

Entrepreneurs exit their business due to selection mechanisms experienced in the market place. Next to this well known ex-post decision to exit, entrepreneurs select ex-ante whether they are willing to pursue an entrepreneurial career at all, or to give up these entrepreneurial intentions. This...

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Seeing the world with different eyes

Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian D. - 2008 - Revised version (v2.0)

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...

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Entrepreneurial moral hazard in income insurance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2011

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....

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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 other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...

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Modelling entrepreneurship

Bosma, Niels; Wit, Gerrit de; Carree, Martin Anthony - 2003

Two approaches can be distinguished with respect to modelling entrepreneurship: (i) the approachfocusing on the net …

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An eclectic theory of entrepreneurship : policies, institutions and culture

Verheul, Ingrid; Wennekers, A. R.; Audretsch, David B.; … - 2001

The level of entrepreneurship differs considerably across countries and periods. Both thecauses and consequences of … entrepreneurship are a matter of extensive scientific debate aswell as of great policy importance. A high level of entrepreneurial … paper deals with the determinants of entrepreneurship. An eclectic theory ofentrepreneurship is introduced. This eclectic …

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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2014

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...

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Badge of honor or scarlet letter? : unpacking investors' judgment of entrepreneurs' past failure

Zunino, Diego; Praag, Mirjam van; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017

Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneursâ€™ past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information...

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How do entrepreneurial bosses influence their employees' euture entrepreneurship choices?

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016

employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees’ future entrepreneurship choices, especially … bosses on female employees’ transition into entrepreneurship. We show that the female boss effect is greater than other …

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