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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …
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Behind the GATE experiment: Evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Property Values and the Likelihood of Self-Employment
Hansson, Åsa; Kopsch, Fredrik - 2020
It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own capital or capital from friends, fools and family in order to acquire required capital. In this paper, we study the role property plays for starting a business or becoming...
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Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden
Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger - 2013
This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher...
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