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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany
Kohn, Karsten - 2018
household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in … Germany, our regression results show that entrepreneurs in creative industries tend to be younger and better educated than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915340
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117831
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"I Want to, But I Also Need to" : Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149521
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325130
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Entrepreneurship : Origins and Returns
Berglann, Helge - 2009
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158518
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Determinants of Business Success : An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Robb, Alicia - 2007
Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David - 2019
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Start-Up Success of Freelancers : New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim - 2006
If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780455
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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M. - 2007
Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999-2000. These tax reforms …
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