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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: a simultaneous probit approach
Parker, Simon C. - 2005
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267672
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - 2002
Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262745
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Institutions, networks and entrepreneurship development in Russia: an exploration
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - 2006
. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267935
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Mexican-American entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008
less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268891
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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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'I want to, but I also need to': start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2009
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors … employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269419
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269421
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Out of sight, out of mind: migration, entrepreneurship and social capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269590
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What's the difference?! Gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business
Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010
, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice … educational attainments of potential entrepreneurs do thus not suffice to increase the number of female business starters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269688