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entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their … to become entrepreneurs, and spend more time in entrepreneurship. Among entrepreneurs, more of the firms run by …Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To …
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-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …
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satisfaction with their actual life satisfaction five years later on. This overoptimism also holds for those entrepreneurs who …
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relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people's employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...
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also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …
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" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship …I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young … individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and …
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We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that these dependent self-employed lose their rights under labour law, receive less favourable benefits...
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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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While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated … impact of migration on entrepreneurship among individuals with no migration experience. We explore the self …
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