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The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Stier, Claudia - 2022
entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as … business expansion activities, while career ambition is positively associated with survival, income, and the probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296537
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Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rodriguez, Daniel - 2023
business outcomes up to 19 months after business creation. Outcomes include start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, as … important positive effects of high scores of self-efficacy on start-up survival and entrepreneurial income, which become even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296592
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Constrained firms, not subsistence activities: Evidence on capital returns and accumulation in Peruvian microenterprises
Göbel, Kristin; Grimm, Michael; Lay, Jann - 2012
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289847
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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012
channels: (1) it forces the entrepreneur to devote more time on monitoring hired labour from outside family which curtails her …, measured by hiring of non family labour, indicating frictions in the labour market may outweigh the effects of the easing of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283965
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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business : Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004
causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background …-employed family member prior to starting their business. Conditional on having a self-employed family member, less than 50 percent of … small business owners worked in that family member's business suggesting that it is unlikely that intergenerational links in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262044
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931627
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282402
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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282468
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Worker directors: a German product that didn't export?
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
globalization and the availability of alternative forms of corporate governance in the EU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269284