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Self-employment after socialism: Intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...

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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009

entrepreneurship and the strongest relationship is between associated activities and entrepreneurship. This is consistent with the need …

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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

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Health as human capital in entrepreneurship : individual, extension, and substitution effects on entrepreneurial success

Hatak, Isabella; Zhou, Haibo - In: Entrepreneurship theory and practice : ET&P 45 (2021) 1, pp. 18-42

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The economics of language: an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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Institutions and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence for OECD countries

Khalilov, Latif; Yi, Chae-Deug - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 2, pp. 119-134

Objective: The objective of the article is to test the bidirectional association of institutions and entrepreneurship … role of institutions in entrepreneurial activity, while ignoring the role of entrepreneurship in the building of … institutions. We estimate how institutions and entrepreneurship relate to each other and contribute to economic growth. For the …

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

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Entrepreneurial Choices of Initial Human Capital Endowments and New Venture Success

Rocha, Vera; van Praag, Mirjam C.; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016

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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