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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment
Henley, Andrew - 2009
Contemporary dynamic theories of self-employment choice focus on occupational switching costs, and the risk associated with entrepreneurial income streams. However little or no previous research has addressed the question of what factors determine the length of time that it takes aspiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269353
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272295
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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany : Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272299
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282614
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The jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur: innate talent or acquired skill?
Silva, Olmo - 2006
Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267719
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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, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269419
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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011
one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278676
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Income taxes and entrepreneurial choice: empirical evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M.; Steiner, Viktor - 2006
Entrepreneurial activity is often regarded as an engine for economic growth and job creation. Through tax policy, governments possess a potential lever to influence the decisions of economic agents to start and close small businesses. In Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267760
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Income Taxation and Hours Worked in Different Types of Entrepreneurship
Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2023
We investigate the effect of personal income tax (PIT) rates on the number of hours entrepreneurs work weekly. Using the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019, we estimate instrumental variable regressions in first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469750
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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M.; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Entrepreneurial activity is often regarded as an engine for economic growth and job creation. Through tax policy, governments possess a potential lever to influence the decisions of economic agents to start and close small businesses. In Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566693