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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...

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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...

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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

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The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Stier, Claudia - 2022

job creation, expansion and innovation activities for up to 40 months after business formation. Using self … better, the higher they score on this index. Effects are particularly strong for growth oriented outcomes like innovation and … ambition, and necessity. We show that individuals driven by opportunity motives perform better in terms of innovation and …

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Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rodriguez, Daniel - 2023

well as growthoriented outcomes such as job creation and innovation. We find statistically significant and economically … stronger when focusing on the growth-oriented outcome of innovation. Furthermore, we observe that generalized self-efficacy is …

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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

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Catching up or Lagging Behind? The Long-Term Business and Innovation Potential of Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2019

survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … and job creation, but especially also in innovation activities. The gaps in these business outcomes are relatively …

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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235064