Showing 1 - 10 of 741
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267337
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269687
This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276150
We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277008
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277025
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268550
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319500
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261524
In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762