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Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the … register data on individuals for the year of 2007 for the entire Swedish population we have in this study a unique opportunity …
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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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Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and … entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique feature, the data combine socio-demographic characteristics …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …
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non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the …
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-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …
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-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …
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uncertainty). This paper presents empirical evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurial transition drawing on data from Waves 8 to …
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entrepreneurs fare in the labor market compared to natives. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find …
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