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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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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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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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for more research on digital entrepreneurship.As such, this paper provides an overview of the central research questions … currently being pursued in this field. These include questions such as: What is digital entrepreneurship? What is different in … models and entrepreneurship? How can digital entrepreneurship be supported and regulated? The paper identifies areas of …
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relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …
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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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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …
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Entrepreneurship, being largely an urban phenomenon, co-evolves over time with cities. While this relationship is like … co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, I provide a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities … (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of entrepreneurs. Second, I provide a stylized overview of entrepreneurship and …
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