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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants : A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda - 2015
that entrepreneurs with more varied work experience are more likely to introduce innovations that have not only technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034374
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128222
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the … entrepreneurial development. Interestingly, entrepreneurs are more trustful than employees, but much less trustful than managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134986
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117187
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276
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Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions
Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012
This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes...
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Entrepreneurship : Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?
Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012
Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists may be drawn to self-employment. This paper finds that employees who will be self-employed in...
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Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship
Roed, Knut - 2013
Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088343
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship : Blessing or Curse?
Danakol, Seçil - 2013
This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...
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