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Does education enhance entrepreneurship?

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021

. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …

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Selection into entrepreneurship and self-employment

Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - 2020

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Prior work experience and entrepreneurship : the careers of young entrepreneurs

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023

I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young …" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship. …

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Training, human capital, and gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Said, Mona - 2019

entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the …

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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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The role of entrepreneurial human capital as a driver of endogenous economic growth

Ehrlich, Isaac; Li, Dunli; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2017

Entrepreneurship Monitor's Adult Population Survey of 63 countries over 2002-2010 and find robust support for these hypotheses. …

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Ethnic specialization and earnings inequality : why being a minority hurts but being a big minority hurts more

Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2006

Social interaction is an important vehicle of human capital acquisition and its efficiency decreases in social distance. In this paper I establish that these two premises, given the socio-cultural differences between ethnic groups, explain the puzzling evidence that (i) minorities typically earn...

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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...

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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016

The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...

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Dinner table human capital and entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K.; Oyer, Paul E. - 2018

We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …

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