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. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …
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We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated occupations and...
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This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children. While parental friendships formed in...
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-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self … become self-employed and those ending up in paid employment. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employed ; Germany …
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. -- entrepreneurship ; trust ; reciprocity …
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one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than … parental self-employment. -- entrepreneurship ; personality ; Big Five ; risk aversion ; locus of control …
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unemployment or inactivity risk attitudes do not seem to play a role in the decision process. -- risk attitudes ; entrepreneurship …
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unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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aimed at stimulating opportunity entrepreneurship versus active labor-market policies supporting self-employment as a way … of new opportunity and new necessity entrepreneurship for the 17 Spanish regions. To test whether exogenous shocks have … more widespread in new opportunity than in new necessity entrepreneurship, implying that shocks and temporary policies are …
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