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Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event,' the literature argues that self-employed workers and … Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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An often-heard argument is that South Africa's very high crime rate is the main reason for the country's small share of business ownership. Combining a fixed-effects model with an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the effect of crime on self-employment and business performance using a...
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly beattributed to the transformation process of East Germany … other countries, in Germany there is a positive relationship betweeneducational levels and the probability of starting a …
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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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Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the … entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in … standard curriculum.This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor …
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attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
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