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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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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 …
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: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than others …
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general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship.The implication is that …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …
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In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...
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Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …
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In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship …
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entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a …
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The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...
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