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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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entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary survey data we collected in the … remote work also matter for entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship formation … and closure in a time of adversity and suggest that implementing entrepreneurship training and upskilling policies during …
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increased number of migrants in Europe, factors that positively impact their entrepreneurship and integration merit …
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I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...
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Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship … education are less likely to enter entrepreneurship in general, obtaining any qualification beyond the baseline of compulsory …
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We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...
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a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and "entrepreneurship out of necessity" falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …
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enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …
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