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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment
Henley, Andrew - 2009
Contemporary dynamic theories of self-employment choice focus on occupational switching costs, and the risk associated with entrepreneurial income streams. However little or no previous research has addressed the question of what factors determine the length of time that it takes aspiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269353
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Why do individuals choose self-employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009
entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274537
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Gender, risk and venture creation intentions
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew - 2012
This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289963
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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
Henley, Andrew - 2014
national boundaries between religion and entrepreneurship. Definitions of entrepreneurship are taken from the Global … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies for 2011 and 2012, focusing on the individual rather than on the business venture. Recent data … cultural environment for entrepreneurship. They also suggest that policy-makers may wish to pay closer attention to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352285
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German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander S.; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426457
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Testing the Differential Impact of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Women and Men in the United Kingdom
Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021
This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597362
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Emergency aid for self-employed in the COVID-19 pandemic : a flash in the pan?
Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; Priem, Maximilian; … - 2020
The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments in many countries introduced support programs to support the self-employed, including the German federal government, which approved a €50bn emergency aid program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012406215
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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013399812
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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763629
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On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector
Henley, Andrew; Arabsheibani, G. Reza; Carneiro, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability. Different definitions may imply very different conceptual understandings of informality. This paper investigates the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763755