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With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends : Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
Lerner, Josh - 2014
of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to … entrepreneurship rates of students without an entrepreneurial background, but in a more complex way than the literature has previously … suggested: A higher share of entrepreneurial peers leads to lower rather than higher subsequent rates of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068338
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2015
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … and result in occupational stratification along ethnic lines via concentrated entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014661
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Learning Entrepreneurship from Other Entrepreneurs?
Guiso, Luigi - 2016
We document that individuals who grew up in areas with high density of firms are more likely, as adults, to become entrepreneurs, controlling for the density of firms in their current location. Conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, the same individuals are also more likely to be successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002773
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Wealth, Tastes, and Entrepreneurial Choice
Hurst, Erik - 2015
, yet the preference for business ownership is mostly ignored in models of entrepreneurship and occupational choice. In this … occupational choice. This choice yields several important results: (1) entrepreneurship can be thought of as a normal good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013513
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892563
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The Impact of Early Occupational Choice on Health Behaviors
Kelly, Inas - 2011
Occupational choice is a significant input into individuals' health investments, operating in a manner that can be either health-promoting or health-depreciating. Recent studies have highlighted the potential importance of initial occupational choice on subsequent outcomes pertaining to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129219
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Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth
Munasinghe, Lalith - 2011
Time preference is a key determinant of occupational choice and investments in human capital. Since careers are characterized by different wage growth prospects, individual discount rates play an important role in the relative valuation of jobs or occupations. We predict that individuals with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132747
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Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition
Canes, Brandice J. - 2011
It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas. Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125959
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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices
Buser, Thomas - 2012
Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in education and labor market outcomes. We correlate an incentivized measure of competitiveness with an important career choice of secondary school students in the Netherlands. At the age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097269
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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009 : Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
Blau, Francine D. - 2012
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970-2009...
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