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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

-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …

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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 entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's predictions of their overall future wellbeing. Based on individual panel data for Germany, we find that...

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Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer : Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?

Henley, Andrew - 2019

relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …

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What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people's employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …

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Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship : The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2023

I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young …" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship …

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

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

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

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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

Fossen, Frank M. - 2012

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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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 … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …

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