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This paper builds upon the work of McCaffrey (2016) who explores how economics can enhance entrepreneurship education … enterprise needs to be successful. Second, we developed teaching guides which feature three successful Gen Z entrepreneurs - Max …
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Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large "ab-in-the-field" experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers - a suitable comparison group - and employees …
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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 …
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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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employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university … distribution in their previous salaried job. Surprisingly, the variation in hourly incomes of solo entrepreneurs is higher than … that of entrepreneurs with employees. …
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This paper shows that exposure to entrepreneurs during adolescence increases women's entry and performance in … entrepreneurship and improves the allocation of talent in the economy. Using population-wide registry data from Denmark, we exploit … idiosyncratic within-school, cross-cohort variation in early exposure to entrepreneurs, measured by the share of an adolescent …
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with the ideas of entrepreneurship as being place dependent and that ecosystem measures should be concerned with what … entrepreneurs want - and less on existing institutions. …
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Entrepreneurship scholars are interested in understanding and describing how entrepreneurs make decisions under … judgments regarding potential outcomes. In this chapter, we discuss the development of thought on how entrepreneurs perceive and … react to uncertainty from Frank Knight (1921) to the present day. Recognizing that entrepreneurs face uncertainty rather …
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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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inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship. …
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