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Evaluating women entrepreneurs in the informal sector : some evidence from India

Williams, Colin C.; Gurtoo, Anjula - In: Journal of developmental entrepreneurship : JDE ; a … 16 (2011) 3, pp. 351-369

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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … probability of being an entrepreneur versus an employee or a manager. Our findings reveal that, in particular, trust impacts …

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees

Fossen, Frank M. - 2012

opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative …

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Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2012

Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...

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Self-Employment, Wage Employment and Informality in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2012

We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In...

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Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship

Roed, Knut - 2013

entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business …

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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the … business creation for those without spousal coverage than for those with spousal coverage. We also take a new approach in the … literature to examine the question of whether employer-based health insurance discourages business creation by exploiting the …

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Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs : Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment

Odermatt, Reto - 2017

The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an … successfully remain in business for at least five years. A possible reason might be that they underestimate the heavy workload …

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