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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance
Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255609
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256235
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance
Ejrnaes, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors and effort choice (moral hazard). Partial insurance is available through voluntary unemployment insurance (UI). Additional incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144470
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The way things are done here – Polish entrepreneurship - having endowned heritage or burden?
Starnawska, Marzena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using case study analysis based on in-depth interviews we aim to extend the entrepreneurship research in transition … context in Poland. Entrepreneurship models build in America and Western Europe do not picture the specifics of … entrepreneurship in transition economies. The author reviews concepts and theses on entrepreneurship in this context and argues that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259343
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Entrepreneurship: what´s happening?
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Much has been said lately about entrepreneurship, so it seems important to leave here some personal analysis on this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211239
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Entrepreneurship: some considerations
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this work it is presented some considerations about entrepreneurship. Most of these questions are linked with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211241