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Entrepreneurship and survival dynamics of immigrants to the US and their descendants
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2007
Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...
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The advantage of experienced start-up founders in venture capital acquisition: evidence from serial entrepreneurs
Zhang, Junfu - 2007
Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have more skills and social … connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connections could give experienced founders some advantage in the … experienced founders' access to venture capital. Compared to novice entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with venture-backed founding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268322
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007
entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …
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A study of academic entrepreneurs using venture capital data
Zhang, Junfu - 2007
economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive venture capital database. I find that … about two-thirds of the academic entrepreneurs locate their businesses in the same state as their universities. National … variables in explaining the number of academic entrepreneurs from a university. In contrast, the abundance of venture capital …
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Mexican-American entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008
Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly little research explores why Mexican-Americans are less likely to start businesses and why the businesses that they start are less successful on average than non-Latino whites....
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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009
Low-skilled workers do not fare well in today's skill intensive economy and their opportunities continue to diminish. Given that individuals in this challenging skill segment of the workforce are more likely to have poor experiences in the labor market, and hence incur greater public expenses,...
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Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - 2010
The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of entrepreneurship lock by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We use difference-indifference models to estimate the...
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some …
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Contextualised mobility histories of moving desires and actual moving behaviour
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a growing body of longitudinal research links mobility...
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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? : The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - 2004
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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