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Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2021
drastically after this point. They also apply a new instrument, changes in house prices, for wealth in the entry equation, and … show that instrumented wealth is not a significant determinant of entry. We reinterpret these findings: first, we …
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021
France have flatter wealth gradients …We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …
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Competitiveness and the Gender Gap Among Young Business Professionals
Reuben, Ernesto - 2015
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012820
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Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets
Barlevy, Gadi - 2016
In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explores why these firms require young professionals to take on heavy work loads while simultaneously facing significant risks of dismissal. We argue that the...
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Structural Reform in Germany
Krebs, Tom - 2016
This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of full-day child care and full-day schooling, and...
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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...
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The Economic Progress of American Jewry : From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
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Improving Access to Savings Through Mobile Money : Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Batista, Catia - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … sample of smallholder farmers in rural Mozambique. This sample included a set of primary farmers and their closest farming … fertilizer salience in the remunerated savings treatment may have been important to focus farmers' (limited) attention on saving …
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Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
Flabbi, Luca; Tejada, Mauricio - 2023
The paper performs both a parametric and non-parametric analysis to address a fundamental question in the growing literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as employee be considered two different labor market states?...
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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data : An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2010
Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...
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