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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261628
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Financing entrepreneurship and the old-boy network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282600
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Entrepreneurial entry: which institutions matter?
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269212
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Better means more: property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271286
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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272648
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Size matters: Entrepreneurial entry and government
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272659
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Which institutions encourage entrepreneurs to create larger firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across … grow faster. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 55 countries for 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274639
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance : New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - 2004
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262178
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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 process of raising venture capital. This paper uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268322
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A study of academic entrepreneurs using venture capital data
Zhang, Junfu - 2007
Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … near the university has no significant effect on academic entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268521