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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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A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" after bankruptcy reduces the individual risk involved in entrepreneurial activity. On the other hand, as risk shifts to creditors who recover less of their credit after a debtor's bankruptcy, lenders may charge higher interest rates or...
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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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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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This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less … a conceptual basis for this question, and investigates it using a survey of business start-up intention from across a …
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opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative …
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …
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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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increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … starting a business …
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