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entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …
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We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...
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the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
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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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enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …
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entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and …
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psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship …
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A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...
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between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect …
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employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …
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