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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

van der Sluis, Justin; van Praag, Mirjam; Vijverberg, Wim - 2003

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, Roy; van Stel, André; … - 2003

This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for...

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Does Entrepreneurship reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Thurik, A.R. - 2001

In this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic performance. We test these hypotheses using county level data...

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The Relationship between Firm Births and Job Creation

van Stel, André; Storey, David - 2002

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...

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Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners

van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human … entrepreneurs operating legal businesses in a transition context. Using regression techniques on a sample of 399 private business … business motivation. Moreover, younger entrepreneurs benefit from their IEE in terms of business performance, indicating that …

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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2006

entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode is associated with higher levels of schooling and wealth, whereas … managerial experience, new venture start-up capital requirements and risk promote the takeover mode. Entrepreneurs whose parents … entrepreneurs from the Netherlands provides broad support for the theory; implications for policy-makers concerned about the …

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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance

Parker, Simon; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004

estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point relaxation of capital constraints increases entrepreneurs' gross business incomes … by 3.9% on average. Education enhances entrepreneurs' performance both directly—with a rate of return of 13.7%—and … education on entrepreneurs' performance is estimated to be 3.0–4.6%. …

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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants

van der Zwan, Peter; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - 2006

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...

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