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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States : a simultaneous probit approach
Parker, Simon C. (contributor) - 2005
determinants of business ownership in America. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; family ; business ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053136
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. -- Entrepreneurship ; self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926421
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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
a positive relationship between an individual’s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and "entrepreneurship out of necessity" falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011635
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A selection-based theory of the transition from employment to entrepreneurship : the role of employer size
Parker, Simon C. (contributor) - 2006
. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309268
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur? : returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees
Hartog, Joop (contributor); Praag, Mirjam van (contributor);  … - 2008
? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage …-)cognitive abilities ; intelligence ; earnings ; entrepreneur(ship) ; wage employment ; income differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003750288
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Entrepreneurship over the business cycle in the United States: a decomposition
Fossen, Frank M. - 2019
entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056959
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Recovering ex ante returns and preferences for occupations using subjective expectations data
Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418036
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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Immigrant networks and their implications for occupational choice and wages
Patel, Krishna (contributor); Vella, Francis (contributor) - 2007
This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646711
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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess
Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008
We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646733