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We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …
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We propose an extension of the standard occupational choice model to analyze the life satisfaction of senior entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status as main factors that shape the relationship between...
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In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper, after documenting preliminary evidence on these declines, argues … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
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evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and …
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
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sector. However, these results are sensitive to the level of development. -- Entrepreneurship ; property rights ; access to …
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both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal … financial sector. -- Female entrepreneurship ; state sector ; informal finance …
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employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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