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The 'Entrepreneurial Boss' Effect on Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices : A Role Model Story?
Rocha, Vera - 2016
entrepreneurs themselves? Using Danish register data of newly founded firms and their entrepreneurs and employees between 2003 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985657
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098820
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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs : New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Sauer, Robert M. - 2015
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 formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023768
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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016
search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both … entrepreneurs, formal finance sources of start-up capital are also associated with higher sales. However, as in other developing … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980353
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104968
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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 post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias : Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik C. - 2011
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
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The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment
Fochmann, Martin - 2011
We conduct a framed field experiment with 245 employed persons (no students) as subjects and a real tax, which is levied on the subjects' income from working in our real effort task. In our first three treatments, the net wage is constant but gross wages are subject to different constant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119014
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Trust and Trustworthiness Under the Prospect Theory : A Field Experiment in Vietnam
Nguyen, Quang - 2012
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect Theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences. We find that while probability sensitivity or risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099719
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Framing Effects in an Employee Savings Scheme : A Non-Parametric Analysis
Kooreman, Peter - 2013
Studies have found evidence that seemingly irrelevant details of an income component such as its label have an effect on how it is used. Using a data set with more than one million employee-month observations, we investigate the role of functional form assumptions and time aggregation in the...
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