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US entrepreneurs typically work long hours in their firms and these hours form a large part of the firms' labor input. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth distribution among entrepreneurs. We introduce owners' endogenous labor supply into a model of...
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are employed 90 days after arrival is positively affected by the number of business owners in their network, but … refugees in their business, while network members working as employees compete with them, consistent with refugees …
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In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001 … stock of (non-entrepreneur) immigrants by 10% would lead to a 1.7% increase in exports in manufacturing towards immigrants …
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the digital economy from an entrepreneurial perspective? What is the impact of digitalization - and big data - on business …
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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well as for recent start-ups and for every level of the entrepreneur's education. The size of the estimated immigrant …-native differences in product and process innovation activities rises with detailed controls for demographic and human capital …
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relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both genders with higher start-up capital record better...
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The "Great Recession" resulted in many business closings and foreclosures, but what effect did it have on business … formation? On the one hand, recessions decrease potential business income and wealth, but on the other hand they restrict … effects on business creation, but these effects are noticeably smaller. Additional regression estimates indicate that …
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results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns significantly more than the median salaried … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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