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Berglann, Helge - 2009

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

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Determinants of Business Success : An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia - 2007

Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...

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High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David - 2019

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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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany

Kohn, Karsten - 2018

household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …

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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival

Brown, J. David - 2009

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...

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Human Capital Persistence and Development

Rocha, Rudi - 2015

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...

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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

Heywood, John S. - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...

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Female Hires and the Success of Start-Up Firms

Weber, Andrea - 2009

In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...

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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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