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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Immigrant Self-Employment : Does Intermarriage Matter?
Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2009
This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male … show that immigrants married to a native are significantly less likely to exit from entrepreneurship compared to their … to become an entrepreneur and for survival in entrepreneurship, which is consistent with a network effect. On the one …
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Impact of personal cultural orientations and moral potency on self-employment intentions : the moderating role cognitive styles
Baluku, Martin; Otto, Kathleen - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 37 (2019) 4, pp. 545-572
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Freelancers and innovation in France
Besten, Matthijs Leendert den; Nakara, Walid A. - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 29 (2016) 1, pp. 66-82
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Non-cognitive skills, occupational choices, and entrepreneurship : an empirical analysis of entrepreneurs' career choices
Sorgner, Alina - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 25 (2015) 2, pp. 208-230
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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M. - 2007
Entrepreneurial activity is often regarded as an engine for economic growth and job creation. Through tax policy, governments possess a potential lever to influence the decisions of economic agents to start and close small businesses. In Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced...
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Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer : Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?
Henley, Andrew - 2019
relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers : Are They Time and Income Multidimensional Poor? The German Case
Merz, Joachim - 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
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'Entrepreneurs Out of Necessity' : A Snapshot
Poschke, Markus - 2010
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144388
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What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the 'Employee or Entrepreneur' Dichotomy
Nolan, Michael A.; Burke, Andrew E.; Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2021
The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of … entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches …
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