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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

Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...

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Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Saha, Sarani - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...

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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship – education – and approximately three times larger than …

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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. …

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It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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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The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …

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