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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy
Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human … depth analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship in Italy, thus accounting for the role that variables like the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836859
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Why do Employees Leave Their Jobs for Self-Employment? – The Impact of Entrepreneurial Working Conditions in Small Firms
Werner, Arndt; Moog, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Based on the finding that entrepreneurs who found new firms tend to work as employees of small rather than large firms prior to start-up, we test how different working conditions, which enhance entrepreneurial learning, affect their decision to become entrepreneurs when moderated by firm size....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540973
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Perceived financial barriers and the start-up decision: An econometric analysis of gender differences using GEM data
Stephen, Roper; Jonathan M., Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602760
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Do risk attitudes differ within the group of entrepreneurs?
Block, Joern; Sandner, Philipp; Spiegel, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The notion of risk and entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature. Starting a … about risk attitudes of entrepreneurs and to the literature about necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566446
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Déterminants de la participation au marché du travail et choix occupationnel: une analyse microéconométrique appliquée au cas de l'Algérie
Lassassi, Moundir; Hammouda, Nacer-Eddine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A review of the literature on the issue of labor market participation and occupational choice, allows us to see that research on this topic turned more on developed countries. In developing countries, including Algeria, the determinants of participation in economic activity and individuals’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643754
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Post-reform Trends in Wage-Differentials: A Decomposition Analysis for India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage differentials in India in the post reform period. Using...
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Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs
Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260930
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Perceptual variables and nascent entrepreneurship in Chile: opportunity versus necessity
Lennon Sabatini, Joaquin; Franetovic Parker, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
by the nascent entrepreneurship, ie, those entrepreneurs who are starting a new business, including any form of self … (decision to undertake a new business). Document will use the work "Perceptual Variables and Nascent Entrepreneurship" (2005) of … dissimilar (as Acs and Varga 2005, opportunity entrepreneurship has a positive effect on economic development, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108382
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The Dynamics of Self-employment in a Developing Country: Evidence from India
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543481
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Entrepreneurship and the Hidden Economy: An Extended Matching Model
Pugno, Maurizio; Lisi, Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper develops a labour market matching model in order to address the problem of the persistence of the hidden sector and of its regional concentration, as in Italy and in the enlarged Europe. The main novel features of the model are that entrepreneurial ability affects job productivity,...
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