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employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship …
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The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is … known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance …
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becoming self-employed later in life and 2) of being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales. Our results … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …
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We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances … commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990 …) productive entrepreneurship and that it will therefore compete at the individual level for resources with commercial …
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We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
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This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision processes to become self-employed. Data from a cohort of Dutch inhabitants born in 1939/1940 who have...
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It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada. We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community...
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In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
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Entrepreneurship Monitor's Adult Population Survey of 63 countries over 2002–2010 and find robust support for these hypotheses …
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endogeneity of the temporary migration decision, an overseas returnee is more likely to become an entrepreneur than a non …
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