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Start-up success of freelancers : new microeconometric evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim (contributor); Paic, Peter (contributor) - 2006
If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301655
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The economic progress of American Jewry : from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922125
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Structural reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2016
This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of full-day child care and full-day schooling, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454000
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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers
Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021
We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants … entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers, but that in the public condition this ordering is reversed. Data from a … follow-up survey suggest that social image concerns of entrepreneurs and perceived norms can explain why entrepreneurs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485517
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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 … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607388
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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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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2006
Hurst and Lusardi (2004) recently challenged the long-standing belief that liquidity constraints are important causal determinants of entry into self-employment. They demonstrate that the oft-cited positive relationship between entry rates and assets is actually unchanging as assets increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003344611
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The speed of employer learning and job market signaling revisited
Habermalz, Steffen (contributor) - 2006
This paper discusses the claim made in Altonji and Pierret (1997) and Lange (2005) that a high speed of employer learning indicates a low value of job market signaling. The claim is first discussed intuitively in light of Spence’s original model and then evaluated in a simple extension of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003469479
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Size matters : entrepreneurial entry and government
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of variables related to protection of property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008668035
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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution : evidence from performance measures
Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008689037