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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …
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prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …
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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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This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on the occupational status of Jewish men and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses...
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composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
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. Our analysis is based on nationwide longitudinal registry data on Finland. We focus on the heterogenous effects of the … tertiary-educated parents, implying that the recession aggravated the pattern of societal inequality in Finland. Importantly …
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-low-income neighbourhoods among immigrants and native-born residents in three urban regions in Finland. We use longitudinal register data for …
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composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
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We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
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Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in … squeeze and time pressure in general and in particular for the self-employed as entrepreneurs and freelancers. …
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